They Asked Speer Why Germany Couldn't Out-Build America. He Gave One Number.

May 1945. In a castle by the Baltic Sea, American investigators sat down with Albert Speer, the man who ran Hitler's war factories, and asked why Germany could not out-build America. His answer came down to one number. Told through real archive film from the Second World War. CHAPTERS 0:00 1. THE CASTLE BY THE BALTIC 1:10 2. HITLER'S ARCHITECT 2:07 3. AMERICA'S FACTORIES 3:08 4. SPEER'S STRANGE FIGURES 3:43 5. SCHWEINFURT AND BLACK THURSDAY 4:27 6. FACTORIES IN THE MOUNTAINS 6:02 7. THE ONE WEAK POINT: FUEL 6:52 8. 12 MAY 1944 7:57 9. THE ONE NUMBER 8:54 10. WHAT 90 PERCENT MEANS 10:34 11. THE MAN BEHIND THE NUMBERS 12:13 12. THE ANSWER RESEARCH AND SOURCES United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) reports; Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (1969); Wikipedia articles on the Oil Campaign of World War II and the US Strategic Bombing Survey. Figures as reported in those sources. Archive film: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Bundesarchiv, Imperial War Museums (IWM), public domain archival collections. CREDITS (Creative Commons) Battlefield History:    • American Troops Entered Berlin in 1945… an...   US National Archives:    • Orphans of Buchenwald/Ex-Prisoners Coming ...   City of Independence, Missouri:    • Truman Day | Independence, Missouri   Les travers de l'histoire:    • B-17 Mission To Bremen Germany, October 8,...   The Past Unlocked :    • Why This WWII Train Car is a Must-See   PublicResourceOrg:    • AIR FORCE STORY, THE -- PRELUDE TO INVASIO...   Armoured Archivist:    • Fighter Pilot | RAF Recruitment Film (1940)   PublicResourceOrg:    • AIR FORCE STORY, THE -- ROAD TO ROME, SEPT...   Enhanced Public Domain:    • 1944 WW2 Newsreel 🎞️ Allied Drive on Italy...   PublicResourceOrg:    • Nuremberg - Reel 4 - U.S. Army Version   Hidden History Archives:    • Bombs Over Milan:  WWII Allied Bombing of ...   Archives New Zealand:    • American Envoy, Smoke Without Fire, War Wo...   PublicResourceOrg:    • AIR FORCE STORY, THE -- PLOESTI, MARCH-AUG...   PublicResourceOrg:    • NAZI WAR PLANTS BLASTED BY R.A.F. IN NIGHT...   PublicResourceOrg:    • AIR FREIGHT BY PARACHUTE [ETC.]   PublicResourceOrg:    • GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS (Reel 1 of 2)   Armoured Archivist:    • Ship Busters | Mosquito and Beaufighter No...   PublicResourceOrg:    • Castle Films Bismarck Sea Victory   AVhistorybuff:    • 14th Air Force Fighter Gun Camera Footage ...   World War 2 Books Where To Start!:    • Battle of the Bulge! Last Gasp in the West...   PublicResourceOrg:    • Air Army Invades Germany   PublicResourceOrg:    • ALLIED BOMBERS STRIKE ON TWO FRONTS [ETC.]   The supply chain war:    • The interrogation That Changed WW2: What A...   PublicResourceOrg:    • TWO NEW CRUISERS JOIN U.S. NAVY [ETC.]   wikipedia tts:    • Belgian prisoners of war in World War II |...   WW2 Chronicles TV:    • Nuremberg, 1946 — The Final Hours of Wilhe...   Union Films:    • Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)   PublicResourceOrg:    • AIR WAR IN EUROPE   PublicResourceOrg:    • WEST POINT SENDS 409 NEW OFFICERS INTO U.S...   Militaria Collectors Network:    • Use of Fire (1943) | British Army Infantry...   wikipedia tts:    • Bombing of Leipzig in World War II | Wikip...   Thanks for watching. Speer's own report put it at 90 percent of the aviation fuel, gone in a few weeks. If you had been in that room in 1945, what would you have asked him? Tell us in the comments. New story every week. Subscribe so the next one finds you. #AlbertSpeer #WW2 #History Cold Reel | #WW2 #History