
Jericho’s Trumpet: The German Stuka
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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Is the Stuka a German Propaganda Machine?
The Stuka is emblematic of Blitzkrieg. It's sort of that thing of the Germans getting off to a good start and then never being able to quite move on from the, from that start. The fact that it's still around in 44, I think is absolutely, and obviously to the end of the war is absolutely fascinating that they're still building it. Given the things they're trying to do technologically elsewhere, you know, that at the same time you've, Emmy 262 is being perfected at that same moment. Some of the decisions they've arrived, conclusions they've arrived at by 1940, they're still hanging on to when they're probably of limited tactical value, but
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