Europe: Beginning of December 1941
GERMANY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
V/1
Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power
Germany and the Second World War
Edited by the
Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
(Research Institute for Military History),
Potsdam, Germany
VOLUME V
Organization and Mobilization
of the German Sphere of Power
PART 1
Wartime administration, economy,
and manpower resources 19391941
BERNHARD R. KROENER
ROLF-DIETER MLLER
HANS UMBREIT
Translated by
JOHN BROWNJOHN
PATRICIA CRAMPTON
EWALD OSERS
LOUISE WILLMOT
Translation editor
EWALD OSERS
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Contents
PART I
Towards Continental Dominion
BY HANS UMBREIT
PART II
The Mobilization of the German Economy for Hitlers War Aims
BY ROLF-DIETER MLLER
PART III
The Manpower Resources of the Third Reich in the Area of Conflict between Wehrmacht, Bureaucracy, and War Economy, 19391942
BY BERNHARD R. KROENER
BY BERNHARD R. KROENER
ROLF-DIETER MLLER
HANS UMBREIT
List of Illustrations
DIAGRAMS
Organization Chart of the Authority of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, 1 October 1940 |
Structure of Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France, as of November 1941 |
Provisional Organization Chart of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, as of 1 December 1941 |
Special Administration of the Plenipotentiary for the Economy (GBW), as of 30 September 1939 |
Economic Development in the German Reich and in Great Britain during the First Few Wartime Months, 191415 and 193940 |
Imports of Raw Materials after the Outbreak of War |
Organization of the Agricultural Marketing System and Wartime Food Production |
Wartime Ration Quotas for the German Population, as of mid-October 1939 |
Scheme for the Development of the Military Command Economy, November 1939 |
Development Plan of 12 December 1939 (Plan Orange) for the Manufacture of Propellants, Explosives, and Chemical Warfare Agents |
Diagrammatic Illustration of Raw-material Management |
Assessment of the Fuel Situation in the Event of a Lengthy War, October 1939 |
The Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs and its External Agencies, 1 January 1941 |
The Military Control of Ammunition Manufacture up to April 1940 |
German Foreign Trade 19391941 |
Todts Means of Influencing the War Economy |
System of Authorities Controlling the Armaments Industry, 19401941 |
The Army Ordnance Department, as of 1 July 1941 |
Raw-material Requirements (Iron and Steel), and Availability in the Fourth Quarter 1941 |
Development of German Fuel Stocks 19391941 |
Grings Facilities for Influencing the War Economy, as of 1941 |
Assessment of the Raw-material Situation, November 1941 |
Rationing of Iron and Steel |
U-boat Development, September 1939 to March 1942 |
Production and Total Losses of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, September 1939March 1942 |
Front-line Formation Losses and Acquisitions of Aircraft from the Beginning of the War to March 1942 |
The Development of Luftwaffe Combat-readiness from the Beginning of the War to March 1942 |
Provision of Goods Wagons by the Reichsbahn |
Speers Scheme for the Reorganization of the Armaments Economy, February 1942 |
Level of Industrial Employment 19161918 |
Personnel Losses among the Flying Personnel of the Luftwaffe, 15 May26 Aug. 1939 |
Call-up of Age-groups 18831929 for Active Military Service |
Male Members of Age-groups Born 18831929, as at 17 May 1939 |
Survey of Structure of Conscription |
Survey of Available Trained Servicemen in Military District VII, According to Position on 6 May 1939 |
Wehrmacht Strength, 1 September 1939 |
Information on the Fhrer Reserve and Trainee Officers in the Area of Acting Corps Command VII. AK, as at 1 September 1939 |
Number of Male Unemployed (Altreich) and Development of Reservist and Recruit Potential of the Wehrmacht 19331939 |
Number and Filling of General Staff and Trainee General Staff Posts of the Army 19391942 |
Composition of the Total Population of the German Reich according to the Census of 17 May 1939 |
Work-seekers and Available Posts April-September 1939 |
Schematic Representation of the Programmes for Reserved Occupations in the War September 1939April 1941 |
Schematic Representation of the Reserved Occupation Post Process after the Beginning of the War |
Position of Reserved Occupation Posts, as at 9 December 1939 |
Results of Process Applied to Skilled Workers in Short-supply Occupations up to 1 May 1940 |
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