Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and ... of Power Vol 5 (Germany & Second World War)

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 Militärgeschichtliches 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. CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF TABLES NOTES ON THE AUTHORS NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION ABBREVIATIONS GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS A G K L M P R S T W INTRODUCTION PART I: Towards Continental Dominion I. PLANS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR II. STAGES IN THE TERRITORIAL ‘NEW ORDER’ IN EUROPE 1. Germany’s Expansion by ‘Peaceful’ and Warlike Means 2. Structures of the German Sphere of Power 3. Lack of Uniformity in Administration 4. Hitler’s Europe III. THE PREFERRED ‘NEW ORDER’: TERRITORIES ANNEXED DE JURE AND DE FACTO IV. ADMINISTRATION AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE GERMAN SPHERE OF POWER 1. Direct Exercise of Rule and Supervisory Administration 2. Legislation and Jurisdiction 3. Securing the Occupied Territories by Police and Military Means V. THE EXPLOITATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES 1. The Economic ‘New Order’ 2. Pillage and Methodical Exploitation 3. Attainment of Financial Advantage 4. Recruitment of Labour VI. GERMAN RULE IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: PRETENSIONS AND REALITY 1. The ‘Master Race’ and ‘Ethnic Aliens’: German Racial Policy 2. German Propaganda in the Occupied Territories 3. Aspirations towards Cultural Hegemony 4. Material Hardships and Hunger VII. COLLABORATION AND RESISTANCE PART II: The Mobilization of the German Economy for Hitler’s War Aims I. PREPARATIONS FOR TOTAL WAR II. IMPROVISATION IN LIEU OF PLANNING: THE ‘TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY’ 1. The Abortive Mobilization of September 1939 2. The Claim to Military Primacy 3. Curbed Reorientation and the Decentralization of Industrial Production 4. Polycentrism as a Product of Indecision in the National Socialist Regime 5. Initial Effects and Consequences of the Blockade III. MAKESHIFT SOLUTIONS IN SPRING 1. The ‘Ammunition Crisis’: Renewed Mobilization Efforts and Administrative Compromises 2. The Allocation of Raw Materials as a Means of Controlling Armaments 3. The First Closure Campaign 4. Todt in the Ascendant 5. The Formation of the Reich Ministry for Arms and Ammunition IV. THE VICTOR’S HUBRIS: GERMANY LOSES ITS LEAD IN ARMAMENTS AFTER THE FRENCH CAMPAIGN 1. Mobilization Discontinued Once More 2. Adjustment to a Postwar Economy 3. Continental Europe in the Service of the German War Economy 4. The Reorientation of Arms Manufacture: Shortages and Priorities V. THE CRIPPLING OF ARMAMENTS PRODUCTION 1. The Struggle for Control of the Armaments Industry 2. The Second Closure Campaign: Intensified Mobilization in Favour of Armaments Begins in Spring 1941 3. Hitler Turns East VI. THE ROAD INTO CRISIS 1. Todt’s Initiative in the Summer of 1941 2. Readjustment to a ‘War of Endurance’? 3. The New Redirection of Armaments in July 1941 4. Upheavals in the Domestic Economy 5. Limits of Economic Expansion 6. Waiting for a Solution 7. Göring’s Last Appearance as Economic Dictator 8. Starting-point for Armaments in 1942 VII. BEGINNINGS OF A REORGANIZATION OF THE WAR ECONOMY AT THE TURN OF 1941/1942 1. The Search for New Outlooks 2. The End of the Military Command Economy 3. From Todt to Speer PART III: The Manpower Resources of the Third Reich in the Area of Conflict between Wehrmacht, Bureaucracy, and War Economy, 1939–1942 Introduction: Blitzkrieg Strategy and Blitzkrieg Economy: The Genesis of a Concept I. ORGANIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MILITARY MOBILIZATION 1. Population Distribution in Wartime: The Lessons of the First World War 2. The Creation of ‘Combat-readiness’ in the Summer of 1939 3. The Mobilization of the Wehrmacht II. THE WEHRMACHT MANPOWER SITUATION AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR 1. Replacement of Other Ranks 2. The Situation regarding Replacement of Non-commissioned Officers 3. The Officer Corps III. ‘MAN MANAGEMENT’: POPULATION DISTRIBUTION IN THE AREA OF TENSION BETWEEN WEHRMACHT AND WAR ECONOMY (SEPTEMBER 1939–JUNE 1941) 1. Organizational Structure and Method of Operation of the Military Replacement System 2. Controlling the Manpower Requirements of the War Economy 3. The Process of Industrial Mobilization 4. Changes in the Employment Situation between September 1939 and June 1941 5. Socio-political Measures and Labour Discipline 6. Results of the Stocktaking of Industrial Manpower of 31 May 1940 7. The ‘Armaments Swerve’, June–September 1940 8. The Development of the Employment Situation between the Führer Order of 28 September 1940 and the Attack on the Soviet Union 9. The Balance of Forces of the National Economy on 31 May 1941: Human Balance Sheet’ and War Statistics IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY MANPOWER CONTROL UP TO THE SUMMER OF 1941 1. The ‘Ammunition Crisis’ and the French Campaign (September 1939–June 1940): Changes in the Personnel Framework and Structure of the Wehrmacht up to the Summer of 1940 2. From ‘Sea Lion’ to ‘Barbarossa’:The Restructuring of the Wehrmacht between the French Campaign and the Attack on the Soviet Union 3. The Manpower Equipment of the Wehrmacht for the War in Eastern Europe, September 1940–June 1941 4. Plans for Army Reorganization after Barbarossa V. THE WINTER CRISIS OF 1941–1942: THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCARCITY OR STEPS TOWARDS A MORE RATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF PERSONNEL 1. Inside View of a Crisis 2. The Distribution of Scarcity 3. The Balance Sheet of the Crisis VI. 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 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z This is the second in the comprehensive ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The five volumes so far published in German take the story to the end of 1941, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militargeschichtliches 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. This volume surveys the first year of the war deliberately begun by Nazi Germany. The authors examine the train of interconnected political and military events, and set military operations against the background of Hitler's war policy and general aims, both immediate and long term. The authors show that the conflict took a course quite different from that which Hitler had intended, but nevertheless resulted in a series of conquests for the Third Reich Part 1: "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."-- Publisher's webpage v. 1. The build-up of German aggression / Wilhelm Deist ... [et al.] v. 2. Germany's initial conquests in Europe / Klaus A. Maier ... [et al.] v. 3. The Mediterranean, south-east Europe, and north Africa, 1939-1941 / Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel v. 4. The attack on the Soviet Union / Horst Boog ... [et al.] v. 5. Organization and mobilization of the German sphere of power / Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit (2 v.) v. 6. The global war / Horst Boog ... [et al.]. Unparalleled in scope and depth, Germany and the Second World War is a magisterial ten-volume history series that will prove indispensable to historians of the twentieth century. It will be the definitive history of the war from the German point of view. This book, the first part of Volume 5, examines the developments in wartime administration, economy, and personnel resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941. 'CONSIDERING that during the Second World War most people lost their lives not at the front or even near the front, but as a result of terror and of the conditions created in the occupied countries ... it has to be admitted that occupation administrations and occupation systems call for more thorough attention than they have received so far.' pt. 1. Wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources 1939-1941 pt. 2. Wartime administration, economy and manpower resources 1942-1944/5.