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Wasn't the problem with barbarossa that it wasn't supposed to last until winter? From what I remember reading about it we were not prepared for it. It already started later than it should have and then our allies fucked us.

They used rabbit furs for the iconic "Charkow parkas" worn by the SS-Divisions. But like your second pic this was in 1943, long after Barbarossa.

>German wool industry production during WW2 fascinating

>5 Dec 1941: temperatures at the frontline -21C >yesterday was also 5 Dec: temperatures here +5C Germans surely managed to choose the invasion year

Himmler was breeding Angora rabbits to get some wool: A diagram in the book visualizes the growth of the breeding program with rabbits getting fatter from year to year—in 1941, there were 6,500 rabbits in the concentration camp stables, but a year later there were already 13,000, and in 1943 there were 25,000 animals. Angora production became a showcase project that was proudly presented to Nazi dignitaries when they visited the camps. But rabbit breeding remained unprofitable: Although the picture of a gigantic scale in the album suggests that wool yields reached astronomical heights, they had increased from 460 kilograms in 1941 to 1,470 kilograms the following year and 2,800 kilograms in 1943. In the end, however, less than five tons of wool was a meager result of three years of breeding.

>>29020 >less than five tons of wool was a meager result of three years let's say you need 5 kg of wool to produce a warm soldiers coat. so it's 1000 coats only - yeah, nothing.

>>29017 Battle of the bulge also had an insane unusual cold temperature. >>29007 I may be wrong but I read that Germany was struggling a lot with wool production and was even using rayon on army uniforms.

>>29004 Why angora wool instead of regular wool?

We killed 6 million jews. Surely you can make wool out of jew hair.

>>29035 I learned in school that they used the hair they shaved off in the camps for headphone insulation in u-boots.

>>29029 sure, and yet

>>29035 >>29040 >used the hair they shaved off in the camps for headphone insulation hands down, that's what's so terrifying about the Holocaust: this cold inhumane rationality

>>29020 Just on it's face that plan seems obviously retarded. Such a tiny animal - how would you expect to yield wool for a nation's army?