German Spies Were Stunned When Ford Rolled Out a Bomber Every 63 Minutes
What if German intelligence told the truth—and Nazi leaders refused to believe it? During World War II, German spies repeatedly confirmed an unthinkable reality: Ford’s Willow Run factory was producing a fully built B-24 Liberator bomber every 63 minutes—each one made of 1.5 million parts. By 1943, this single American plant, powered by 42,000 workers including women and African Americans, was outproducing the entire German aircraft industry combined. Yet Hitler and Göring dismissed the reports as propaganda, unable to accept that democracy, diversity, and mass production could shatter their ideology of racial superiority. Drawing from declassified intelligence files, intercepted communications, Operation Pastorius spy testimony, and postwar Nuremberg records, this deeply researched documentary exposes one of history’s most catastrophic intelligence failures. Seventeen independent sources—from Mexican agents to Spanish diplomats and Swedish engineers—all reported the same impossible truth. German leaders ignored it. The result was not just defeat, but inevitability. This is the story of how ideology lost to mathematics—and why denying reality sealed the fate of the Third Reich. #wwii #history #ww2 #wwiiarchive #wwiihistory #historyfacts #hitler #axis
