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German command planned a mechanized war — fast, armored, and unstoppable.

Instead, they watched artillery being pulled by horses.

As fuel shortages crippled the Reich in the later years of World War II, reports reaching German High Command became increasingly desperate. Trucks stood idle. Tanks were immobilized. Artillery units reverted to horse-drawn transport, not by choice, but by necessity.

Inside the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, officers admitted a harsh reality: modern war could not be fought without fuel. Orders emphasized conservation, abandonment of vehicles, and reliance on animals and manpower — a stunning reversal for an army that once preached blitzkrieg.

Horses weren’t a symbol of tradition.

They were a sign of collapse.

When artillery moved by hoof instead of engine, German command understood the truth: the war of machines was over — and they no longer had the machines.