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The Second World War was a war waged not just by generals and frontline soldiers. It was fought also by scientists, engineers and inventors. The ability to marshal resources, to develop new war machines and weapons and to produce them swiftly and efficiently was the key to victory. WW2 was won not on the battlefield, but in the factories.

00:00:00 Porsche: Nazi Muscle Machines
Think of Porsche, and you think of highperformance muscle cars. So it might surprise you to learn that Ferdinand Porsche, father of the Porsche motor racing dynasty, designed some of the slowest vehicles in the German army. He was instrumental in the creation of the Tiger, the Elefant, the VW Kubelwagen and the Panzer VIII Maus, the largest tank in history. But Porsche’s fanciful designs almost crippled the Nazi war economy, and instead of winning the war for the Nazis, they arguably helped to lose it.

00:43:36 Opel – The Truck that Ran the Blitzkrieg
Napoleon once famously said that an army marched on its stomach – but he was wrong. In modern warfare, an army marches on its trucks. And at the start of WW2, the truck that kept the Nazi Blitzkrieg going was the Opel Blitz. But Opel wasn’t owned by the Nazis. It was owned by the Americans.

01:25:27 The Story of the Machine Gun
From the Gatling to the Browning 50 calibre, by way of the Maxim and the MG42, this is a history of the development of the machinegun – and of the factories that made them.
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