How an Eight-Hour Bridge Ended Germany’s Defensive Strategy

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March 1945. On the east bank of the Rhine, German engineer Klaus Bergman watched something he believed was physically impossible. American soldiers were building a sixty-meter steel bridge — with no cranes, no heavy machinery, and no custom components — and they were doing it at industrial speed.

Germany’s entire defensive strategy was based on one calculation: three weeks before the Allies could rebuild the destroyed Rhine bridges. But what Bergman witnessed overturned every assumption. Using fully standardized panels, identical connection points, and assembly teams trained like factory workers, the Americans completed a full-capacity bridge in just eight hours.

This wasn’t engineering. It was mass production applied to warfare.
And Germany had no way to match it.

In this documentary we break down:
• How the modular system worked
• Why the Bailey bridge required no engineers onsite
• Why German industry could not reproduce the system
• How industrial logistics outperformed traditional military planning
• Why this eight-hour construction made months of German demolitions meaningless

A forgotten moment that reveals the true force behind the Allied victory: industrial warfare.
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