Hanno:
You really do need to go to bed, it is now getting very late in Holland.
To the pic and the post, in my experience, most "raid" cars were based on normal civilian passenger car chassis, suitably modified. In the main, they were US origin or branded vehicles such as Chevrolet, Ford, Chrysler etc. I was very pleased to see your pic of one based on a truck chassis even if I did not feel good about the use that the vehicle was intended for.
As to the subject of Germany failing to go to a "total war footing" this is most certainly a topic for another web site, but......, as an enthusiastic if even amateur student of modern history, I have collected a large number of books on the WWII era, many of which deal with the situation in Germany during the war.
Amongst other things that I have read, and I suppose it is the truth, Germany was still conscripting women from the East to act as maids for the well to do German families as late as 1944.
In my country, I can remember that we had a "Victory Garden" behind our small house 1942/1945 where we grew our own vegetables. We sure as hell did not have a "maid" even though we would have been considered as "upper middle class" at that time.
All of the women who might have performed that job were building airplanes in my town of San Diego, California during that era.
Sorry, got off topic.
Bill
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