toad wrote:

On 10 Apr, 13:55, (Steve Firth) wrote:

Singer

Whilst I take your point, I can't imagine a Kraut running at your Slit
trench grasping a sewing machine would be too problematic. Unless you
were only armed with a crochet hook!

How do you think those Fallschirmjaeger parachutes were made? Or those
machine gun ammo belts, uniforms, canvas truck tops, etc. etc.

Not to mention the economic benefit to the Nazi regime. Even the US
Senate has ruled (1974) that without the involvement of US companies
that Germany's re-armament under Hitler would have been much more
difficult, or even impossible to achieve.