Inadequacy of Railro: ad System in Germany and Occupied Countries Offering Many Problems PART from the shortage of oil bombing of marshalling yarı the transport system is the most economy both in Germany and in 1 and the results of the incessant ds and canals, the inadequacy of serious difficulty of the Nazi war her new European empire, writes a correspondent, of the "Manchester Guardian." During the years of intense rearmament and war preparation in Germany the upkeep of the railway system was badly neglected. Clearly reliance must have been placed on a successful Blitzkrieg, as such neglect of the railway system cannot be made good in many months.
In March, 1939, when the management of the State Railways (Reichs-hahn) came forward with an imme! plan of improvements—a plan wh. owing to: he outbreak of the was never carried out,—mai ficiencies of the railway syst: revealed. at the end of 1938 the traffic was 10 per cent. greater than in 1929 (at the peak of the prosperity period) there were about 4000 fewer engines and 80000 fewer goods wagons, a fall of roughly 20 per cent.
The eastern conquests of the Nazis, far from relieving this situation, made it worse. The Austrian and even the Czech rolling-stock was largely obsolate; part of the Polish stock was destroyed, and Russia took a disproportionate share of the rest. With the increasing war effort the Nazis had to use their own rolling-stock in these countries.
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