Volume V Part II of the comprehensive and authoritative Germany and the Second World War series spans the years 1942 to 1945, and looks in closely researched detail, and against a background of growing military setbacks and disasters leading to final defeat, at the administration and ruthless exploitation of the occupied countries and of Germany's own allies, and the effect on their populations (in particular their Jews, Roma, and Sinti) and national economies. This comprehensive study of the meteoric rise to prominence of Hitler's crown prince Albert Speer, and his struggle to implement a 'total war' armaments policy in the face of opposition from the Party's Gauleiters and political rivals in the Nazi leadership, documents with a wealth of maps, diagrams, and tables the achievements of the arms drive he masterminded; a large part of this success is shown to have relied on the forced or slave labour of those under German domination. The conflicting claims of industry and the Wehrmacht for dwindling manpower resources are also considered.

Germany and the Second World War: Organization and Mobilization in the German Sphere of Power, Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942-1944/5 (Germany and the Second World War, Vol 5/II)

History

Rolf-Dieter Müller

Hans Umbreit

Derry Cook-Radmore

Bernhard R. Kroener

Europe

Clarendon Press

Nine months after the beginning of the Second World War, German dominance over much of Europe seemed assured. Hitler not only stood on the pinnacle of his popularity in Germany but more than ever his ideological fixations and political calculations determined German war policy. This volume, the fourth in the acclaimed Germany and the Second World War series, examines the thinking behind the decision to go to war with the Soviet Union which was to prove the undoing of the German war effort. The authors examine in revealing detail the military and political policies behind the attack on the Soviet Union and the strategic conduct of the war. They explore not only the command principles and practices, but also the expenditure and attrition of the forces, and show that by the end of 1941 it was clear that it was in the eastern theatre that the Second World War would be decided and the map of Europe redrawn.

Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union

Joachim Hoffmann

horst-boog

Jürgen Förster

Ernst Klink

Gerd R. Ueberschär

Oxford University Press

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.

Germany and the Second World War

Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, 10 Bde., Bd.5/2, Organisation und Mobilisierung des deutschen Machtbereichs

Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH

Der Feind steht im Osten

Links Verlag, 2011

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