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Almost four decades later, capital-rich Japan—with its breathtaking build-up of economic prosperity that has baffled the world—is reciprocating for the gen[34] SAMURAI CARGO erous assistance it had received from the Reich during World War II. Japan provides West Germany's parched investment scene with muchneeded capital and opportunities to acquire new technologies, some originally sparked by German know-how. The wide palette of German know-how that was made available to Japan surprised Allied technical intelligence experts when they were finally able to study captured records.
The thrust through France had petered out, dashing "Forever Lucky" Patton's hopes for a quick, decisive breakthrough at Metz. He was suddenly frustrated by bad luck, as was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Monty's spectacular 1942 defeat of the "Desert Fox," Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and his Africa Corps seemed far off now, as he failed to outflank the Siegfried line for a clear run through to Berlin. The Luftwaffe bit back with a vengeance. Their superfast Messerschmitt 262s, the world's first-ever jet fighters, were playing havoc with the much slower conventional American and British fighters.
The need for rescripting had been rooted in the suddenly stiffened German resistance of nine months before, which forced the gallop of the converging Allied thrusts to slow into a slow trot. The previous September things still looked good for the West. The Allies had crossed into the Reich near Aachen, and the Red Army, the largest standing army in history, had driven the Germans out of Russia and back onto Reich territory. Suddenly the supposedly wise and prudent generals and statesmen in the West, who had pinned high hopes on [20 ] KAMMLER'S M E T R O P O L I S seeing an early end to the blood and desolation of war, found themselves having to rescale the wall they believed they had long since surmounted.
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