Postwar accounts often exaggerated German manufacturing by repeatedly featuring its largest machines and weapons. Praising German equipment made the Allied victory appear more impressive. It also supported arguments that Western forces needed German experience and technology for a possible war against the Soviet Union. That political setting encouraged favorable deals with former German officers and helped perpetuate claims about German military performance. Germany acquired and developed technology within a wider international industrial world rather than in isolation.
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How postwar needs magnified German industrial myths
Postwar American arguments sometimes enlarged Germany's reputation for uniquely advanced manufacturing to magnify victory and justify Cold War learning from German officers and technology.