The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy

1946 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Emile Despres
Keyword(s):  
War Economy ◽  
Strategic Bombing

Professor Despres on "Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy"

1947 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Paul A. Baran ◽  
J. K. Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
War Economy ◽  
Strategic Bombing

Zur Bedeutung nationalsozialistischer Statistiken und Statistiker nach dem Krieg

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Fremdling
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Monthly Basis ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Strategic Bombing ◽  
Military Administration ◽  
Planning Office ◽  
Command Officer

AbstractAfter the war, NS-statistics were put to manifold uses. Indeed, the industrial census of 1936 served both as a benchmark for the restrictions on German production imposed by the allied powers and as an indispensable input for the introduction of the planned economy in East Germany. In addition the NS-statisticians involved were also considered indispensable for interpreting and implementing these statistics.In order to assess the economic effects of allied bombing during the war, John Kenneth Galbraith oversaw the Overall Economic Effects Division of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Wagenführ and other German statisticians were interrogated in order to elucidate the statistical files of Speer’s Planning Office (Planungsamt), the command centre of the German war economy. As the chief statistician in Speer’s Ministry for Armaments, Wagenführ had been in charge of the statistical information system for running the war economy.The article focuses on a recently detected file on the kidnapping of Rolf Wagenführ by US-officers from Berlin to Bad Homburg in the summer of 1945. At that time, Wagenführ was working for the central command of the Soviet military administration of Germany. I found the report on the kidnapping and the ensuing interrogation which Wagenführ wrote for his Soviet command officer. It is part of the archival files of the German Democratic Republic hosted by the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv) in Berlin-Lichterfelde.The article here concludes with both a brief presentation of those German production statistics (Statistische Schnellberichte) which had been compiled on a monthly basis for the inner political circle around Hitler during the war, and with some results from the USSBS.

Strategic Bombing and the German War Economy

1968 ◽  
pp. 314-324
Author(s):  
Shepard B. Clough ◽  
Thomas Moodie ◽  
Carol Moodie
Keyword(s):  
War Economy ◽  
Strategic Bombing

Blockade and the Civilian Population

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Drew
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
World War ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
Strategic Bombing ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

Drawing on several examples through history, this chapter illustrates the devastating potential that maritime blockades can have when they are employed against modern societies that are dependent on maritime trade, and particularly on the importation of foodstuffs and agricutltural materials for the survival of their civilian populations. Revealing statistics that show that the blockade of Germany during the First World War caused more civilian deaths than did the allied strategic bombing campaign of the Second World War, and that the sanctions regime against Iraq killed far more people than did the 1991 Gulf War, it demonstrates that civilian casualties are often the true unseen cost of conducting blockade operations.

Plant Financing in a War Economy

1943 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Marshall D. Ketchum
Keyword(s):  
War Economy

Big Business and the ‘Blitzkriegswirtschaft’: Daimler–Benz AG and the Mobilisation of the German War Economy 1939–42

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Neil Gregor
Keyword(s):  
German Economy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Economy ◽  
War Of Attrition ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Aircraft Production ◽  
Second World ◽  
Male Labour

Since the end of the war itself, research on the German economy during the Second World War has focused – explicitly or implicitly – on the search for an explanation of the disparities in armaments and output between the first and second halves of the war. In the first half of the war, up until the winter of 1941–2, the development of armaments production was characterised by more or less stable levels of output against the background of the series of swift and successful military campaigns in Poland and in the West. This stands in stark contrast to the second half, which witnessed a radical increase in aggregate armaments output which lasted well into the summer of 1944, and which saw tank production reach 589 per cent of the level at which it had stood in January 1942, weapons production reach 382 per cent of its January 1942 level, and aircraft production 367 per cent of its January 1942 level over the same period, to name some of the most obvious successes. These increases were all the more astonishing for the fact that they were achieved against the background of a massive war of attrition on the Eastern Front which placed demands on German resources and drew male labour from German factories into the Wehrmacht on a scale out of all proportion to that experienced in the first half of the war.

The War Economy and Stock Values

1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Benjamin Graham
Keyword(s):  
War Economy ◽  
Stock Values
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