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Yeah, I know about the aircraft designs sent to Japan and the submarine traffic, but did any of these exchanges materially affect Germany's position in the war?  By 1943, was there any realistic prospect that they could?  Even if the exchanges could have staved off defeat, how is a big expensive, vulnerable flying boat a better investment than a submarine?  By this stage German troops were freezing to death in Russia and the Luftwaffe was being ground down by the bomber offensive.  Global reach aircraft like this and the Amerika-bomber were irrelevant to Germany's situation.