Furthermore, specialist armaments manufacturers would be forced to cut more than 100,000 skilled workers from their rolls.64 Since they would be immediately snapped up by other employers, this would make it far harder to start up mass-production when war began. The army administrators now estimated that it would take six months after the outbreak of war for the ammunition factories to achieve peak production. The ammunition stockpiles of the Wehrmacht were sufficient to cover only fourteen days of heavy fighting.
