Reply #41: They didn't fully mobilize until late in the war

[WatsonT]

oddly enough. They were worried about morale on the homefront.

Also they had some unusual projects that were eating up resources and had nothing to do with the war (trains were used for moving jews to death camps rather than industrial goods, even as troops were advancing on their borders).

And german industry/war time production tended to focus on high quality but very complicated equipment that could not be mass produced.

They made some fine tanks. But if tank design A is 5 times as good as tank design B but tank B is simple and you could produce 10 times as many then it is superior to tank A.

We went with B. They went with A and kept tinkering with it rather than working on a simplified, effective, and easily mass produced design.