The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945: Allied Air Power and the German National RailwayIn 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 a |
Contents
Albert Speers System of Industrial Efficiency | 1 |
The Geographical Division of Labor | 22 |
Wheels Must Roll for Victory The Deutsche Reichsbahn | 35 |
Controversy and Compromise | 61 |
Living for the Present | 86 |
Debilitation | 103 |
Spades against Bombs | 125 |
The Wheels Stop Rolling | 162 |
Conclusions | 177 |
Appendix | 189 |
Notes | 199 |
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Allied air Anlage armaments production Army BA R5 Anh BA RIO Berlin Blatt bombers brown coal bureaucratic Canal car space Central coal car placings coal stocks Coal Syndicate coke CSTC December Deutsche Reichsbahn disruption Dorpmüller Düsseldorf Eighth Air Force Eisenbahnen factor February freight car Ganzenmüller gateways Gauleiters GBLS Geheime Reichssache German economy German Transportation German War Economy Germany's Göring hard coal Hitler intelligence iron January Kehrl Kreidler locomotives Luftwaffe Mannheim marshalling yards military million tons Ministry Münster Nazi November October offensive Office operations Oppeln output overall percent plants Planungsamt Pleiger priority PRO AIR raids railway RBD Essen RBD Halle region Reich Reichsbahn repair RMfRuK Ruhr Ruhr's Rüstung RWKS Schmidt September 1944 SHAEF shipments Spaatz Statistischer Bericht steel strategic bombing supplies target Tedder tion traffic trains transportation bombing Upper Silesia USAFHRC USSBS Vertraulich Wagenführ Wehrmacht Wochenbericht Zuckerman