The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

by Nicholas Stargardt

16,000 artillery rounds needed on average to shoot down a single plane.

Soon 43 per cent of the West German diplomatic corps were former SS men and another 17 per cent had served in the SD or Gestapo. In Bavaria, where American efforts at denazification had gone further than in the other Western zones, 77 per cent of Finance Ministry officials and 94 per cent of judges and state prosecutors were former Nazis.