Thoughts ?

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Because only a few of out cities were bombed into oblivion compared to Germany that was basically flattened.

Believe me, you seriously do not have to flatten a country to modernize a factory or change industrial organisation. =)

Most of what the war did in this regard was destroying old structures and patterns of thinking, leading people to new ideas and ways of doing things, mixed with learned lessons from the war in regards to productivity and mass production (and a huge innovation base from the war's engeneering side)