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There is an important reason why Bavaria can afford such lunatic luxury. Its economy can take it. Bavaria is Western Germany's fat breadbasket, and its agrarian economy has always been nicely sprinkled with small industry. Extremes of rich & poor have been less severe here than in Germany's industrial heart. War damage has been less grievous-bombs could not do to Bavarian farms what they did to Ruhr factories...
There was nothing lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a seven-foot dike and to plug a break in the Ouse River's banks...
...inhabitants of its zone. This meant that Americans, British and French must haul most of their supplies from west of the Elbe, a comedown from the original Anglo-U.S. contention that Berlin's outlying regions, which are under Russian control, should be Berlin's breadbasket. The Russian part of Germany was seriously short of supplies and could not support all Berlin...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...
Exactly 339 days after the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, U.S. and German land troops met in battle for the first time in World War II. The place was the oak groves and citrus valleys of Tunisia, once the breadbasket of Carthage, where Scipio in the Battle of Zama finally destroyed Carthage's power...