War and Economy in the Third Reich
War and Economy in the Third Reich

Author: R. J. Overy

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1995-06-29

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 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.

The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938

Author: R. J. Overy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-06-27

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780521552868

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

The Wages of Destruction
The Wages of Destruction

Author: Adam Tooze

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-02-26

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 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.

Hitler's Economy
Hitler's Economy

Author: Dan P. Silverman

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Dan Silverman focuses on Nazi direct work creation programs, utilizing rich archival sources to trace the development and implementation of these programs at the regional and local level.

The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945
The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945

Author: Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 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.