I'm now imagining Mussolini specifically requesting 3 planes, 4 elephants, and 3 blue whales worth of molybdenum now and forcing a meth-crazed Hitler to do the math on that.
That being said, the amount of material requested to feed Italy's economy as it geared towards war, when reflected in terms of numbers of of giant things like whales, warships, and the eiffel towers, really amplifies the absurdity of what he was was actually demanding.
I genuinely had to look this up because I couldn't believe it at first, and there's some truly absurd fun facts about this list.
Cool concept and scoped really nicely!