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

Volume V Part II of the comprehensive and authoritative Germany and the Second World War series completes the analysis (begun in Volume V/I) of the administration and exploitation of the German sphere of power and of the German war economy. The authors show how, despite military success and increasingly desperate efforts at mobilizing every resource for the war effort, it was becoming apparent that the Reich's strength was spent. The consequence was ever more ruthless oppression of the population and a frenzied elimination of 'ideological' and 'racial' opponents.

Bernhard R. Kroener, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam, ,Rolf-Dieter Muller, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam, ,Hans Umbreit, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,

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

Translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, and Barbara Wilson