Germany and the Second World War
Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941
Published on 3. August 2000
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Hardback
1298 pages
978-0-19-822887-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is part one of the fifth volume in the comprehensive and authoritative series, Germany in the Second World War. It deals with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941.
Series description This is the fifth in the magisterial ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The six volumes so far published in German take the story to 1943, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War from the German point of view. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Series description This is the fifth in the magisterial ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The six volumes so far published in German take the story to 1943, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War from the German point of view. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous figures and maps
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 64 mm
Weight
1792 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-822887-5 (9780198228875)
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Bernhard R. Kroener | Rolf-Dieter Muller | Hans Umbreit
Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941
Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941
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Content
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