"In the alloy metals—nickel, chrome. cobalt, and tungsten—the Continent is extremely weak. The Germans will. therefore, experience increasing difficulty in maintaining their industrial, electrical, and transport efficiency., and in producing armour plate of high resistance power and armour-piercing bombs of great penetrating power.
"Again, the Continent is notoriously deficient in natural textile materials, Even when the Germen and Italian synthetic production is taken into account. the net deficiency is still very great. The Continent has no natural rubber supply and Buna and reclaimed rubber together are equivalent to much less than one-half even of Germany's and Italy's needs. In iron ore and aluminium, the Continent is strongly placed. But in most other industrial raw materials it is dependent upon supplies from side.
"This provides a general picture of the way in which the blockade can be expected to affect Nazi dominated Europe. The oil shortage stands out above the others. But the copper ard ferry-alloy shortages are certainly significant, and the lack of materials for consumers' goods means that supply of civil essentials will become increasingly difficult. On the whole. it seems that exploitation of the lustness of the occupied territories will be quite impossible, and the behaviour of the Germans in those territories suggests that they realize it.
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