They also ran out of manpower. With at least 4 million soldiers killed and hundreds of thousands POWs of the Allies, teenage Hitler Youth and elderly Volkssturm were desperately thrown into the last battles of the war. Actually, German industry despite devastating Allied bombing, continued to crank out tanks, aircraft and other weaponry until war's end, but there was no fuel for them since all the oil refineries and synthetic fuel plants had been destroyed.
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