Germany and the Second World War Volume V/I: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941

by Kroener, Bernhard R.; Muller, Rolf-Dieter; Umbreit, Hans; Osers, Ewald

• ISBN13: 9780198738299
• ISBN10: 0198738293
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bernhard R. Kroener, Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,Rolf-Dieter Muller, Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,Hans Umbreit, Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam

Project co-ordinated by the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Table of Contents

PART I: TOWARDS CONTINENTAL DOMINION
1. Plans for the administration of occupied territories before the outbreak of war
2. Stages in the territorial 'new order' in Europe
3. The preferred 'new order': territories annexed de jure and de facto
4. Administration and safeguarding of the German sphere of power
5. The exploitation of the occupied territories
6. German rule in the occupied territories: pretension and reality
PART II: THE MOBILIZATION OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOR HITLER'S WAR AIMS
1. Preparations for total war
2. Improvisation in lieu of planning: the 'transitional economy'
3. Makeshift solutions in Spring 1940
4. The victor's hubris: Germany loses its lead in armaments after the French campaign
5. The crippling of armaments production
6. The road into crisis
7. Beginnings of a reorganization of the war economy at the turn of 1941/1942
PART III: THE MANPOWER RESOURCES OF THE THIRD REICH IN THE AREA OF CONFLICT BETWEEN WEHRMACHT, BUREAUCRACY, AND WAR ECONOMY, 1939-1942
1. Organization and implementation of military mobilization
2. The wehrmacht manpower situation at the outbreak of war
3. 'Man management': population distribution in the area of tension between wehrmacht and war economy (Sept. 1939-June 1941)
4. The development of military manpower control up to the summer of 1941
5. The winter crisis of 1941-1942: The distribution of scarcity or steps towards a more rational management of personnel
6. Blitzkrieg or total war? Ideological and political-military implications of the reaction to the trauma of the First World War
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF PERSONS