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This volume is concerned with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941. It examines the mobilization of material and personnel resources in the German sphere of power for an industrialized conduct of the war. Indissolubly linked with this issue is the question of the way in which the regime's ideology affected that mobilization process, and why the 'opportunity' which the war offered for an organizational restructuring of this sector was not taken.
The authors have produced a problem-oriented account, providing - by a detailed presentation of government practice - a multitude of insights into the regime's governmental structures.
List 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
About the author
Dr. phil. Bernhard R. Kroener, geboren 1948, ist Professor für Militärgeschichte an der Universität Potsdam und Vorsitzender des Arbeitskreises für Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit.
Summary
Volume V Part I in the comprehensive and authoritative 'Germany in the Second World War' series. It deals with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941
