Germany and the Second World War: Volume V/I: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpow -

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Résumé :
Volume V Part I in the comprehensive and authoritative 'Germany in the Second World War' series. It deals with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941

Biographie:
Project co-ordinated by the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Sommaire:
PART I: TOWARDS CONTINENTAL DOMINION; 1 Plans for the administration of occupied territories before the outbreak of war; 2 Stages in the territorial 'new order' in Europe; 3 The preferred 'new order': territories annexed de jure and de facto; 4 Administration and safeguarding of the German sphere of power; 5 The exploitation of the occupied territories; 6 German rule in the occupied territories: pretension and reality; PART II: THE MOBILIZATION OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOR HITLER'S WAR AIMS; 1 Preparations for total war; 2 Improvisation in lieu of planning: the 'transitional economy'; 3 Makeshift solutions in Spring 1940; 4 The victor's hubris: Germany loses its lead in armaments after the French campaign; 5 The crippling of armaments production; 6 The road into crisis; 7 Beginnings of a reorganization of the war economy at the turn of 1941/1942; PART III: THE MANPOWER RESOURCES OF THE THIRD REICH IN THE AREA OF CONFLICT BETWEEN WEHRMACHT, BUREAUCRACY, AND WAR ECONOMY, 1939-1942; 1 Organization and implementation of military mobilization; 2 The wehrmacht manpower situation at the outbreak of war; 3 'Man management': population distribution in the area of tension between wehrmacht and war economy (Sept. 1939-June 1941); 4 The development of military manpower control up to the summer of 1941; 5 The winter crisis of 1941-1942: The distribution of scarcity or steps towards a more rational management of personnel; 6 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