[PDF] The German Economy At War eBook

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 146963970X

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In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway. The German industrial economy was extraordinarily dependent on the timely, adequate distribution of coal by railroad and inland waterway. The German National Railway in particular was the pivot of the finely balanced armaments production and distribution system created by Albert Speer. But Allied strategists did not immediately recognize this. Only in late 1944, when Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Sir Arthur Tedder built a new strategic consensus, was this vital coal/transport nexus severed. The result was the rapid paralysis of the Nazi war economy. Mierzejewski measures the economic consequences of the bombing by considering broad indices such as armaments and coal production, railway performance, and weapons deliveries to the armed forces. In addition, he shows how individual companies in each of Germany's major economic regions fared. By drawing on previously unexamined files of private German manufacturing companies, the Reich Transportation Ministry, and Allied air intelligence agencies, Mierzejewski creates a rare combination of economic analysis and military history that provides new perspectives on the German war economy and Allied air intelligence.

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1474241476

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This title describes the development of Germany's war economy in the light of the unpublished documentary material which was captured in 1945 including records from the Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions, notes made by Albert Speer of his conferences with Hitler, many papers of the economic and munitions section of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and of its chief, General Thomas, as well as some papers of private armament firms such as Messerschmitt. It presents a detailed study of a contest for power at the highest levels of the National Socialist hierarchy, making this invaluable reading for studies in military and German history, politics and studies in totalitarianism.

Author : R. J. Overy
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 1995-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0191647373

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War and Economy in the Third Reich examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and the Second World War. Richard Overy's essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life. Often thought-provoking, always informed, War and Economy opens a window on an essential aspect of Hitler's Germany.

Author : Bikal Dhungel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3668040249

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: Very Good (1,3), University of Glasgow (Adam Smith Business School), course: Growth and Development, language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the story of economic growth of post-WWII Germany. Devastated in terms of material loss and human well-being, Germany put its name in the books of economic history as a success story of development. The 'Wirtschaftswunder' (Economic Miracle) that started in the early 1950s is a topic that has been intensely studied by scholars. This essay will briefly describe some facts prior to World War II and the extent of loss during the war. The following part will highlight some data about the growth and explain how this was achieved.

Author : Adam Tooze
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1101564954

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"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial Times An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology--was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as America's overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world. The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that set off debate in Germany and will fundamentally change the way in which history views the Second World War.

Author : Richard H. Tilly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022672557X

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In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

Author : Burton H. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge, Harvard Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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2. Verdenskrig. Om Tysklands økonomiske forberedelser til krigen, tysk økonomi, tysk krigsøkonomi, m.m. Study udgivet af Harvard University i 1959. Emneord: Tyske Krigsforberedelser: 2. Verdenkrig; Tyskland, Historie, 1930'erne; Tysk Krigsøkonomi; Tysk Økonomi; Tysk Krigsindustri; Tysklands Oprustning i 1930'erne; Tysklands Våbenindustri; Tysklands Råvareproduktion; Tysk Krigsproduktion; Tyske Ressourcer;

Author : Hans-Joachim Braun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113497681X

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The twentieth century has seen Germany transformed from imperial monarchy, through Weimar democracy, National Socialist dictatorship, to finally divide into parliamentary democracy in the West and socialist Volksdemocratie in the East. Pivoting on two World Wars, intense political change has dramatically affected Germany's economic structure and development. This book traces the logic and the peculiarities of German economic development through the Weimar Republic, Third Reich and Federal Republic. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the period, the book also assesses controversial issues, such as the origins of the Great Depression, the primacy of politics or economics in the decision to invade Poland and the future risks to the Weltmeister economy of the Federal Republic oppressed by unemployment, the huge debts of some of its trading partners, and the possibility of worldwide protectionism.

Author : R. J. Overy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521557672

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A fully revised and updated edition of this short comprehensive survey of the Nazi economy.