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Jonas Scherner

Report on the State of the German Economy 1943/44

Keywords: Zweiter Weltkrieg, Deutsche Rüstungspolitik, Speer, Zwangsarbeiter

During the first half of 1944, the German armament ministry′s planning office, headed by Hans Kehrl, wrote the “Bericht zur deutschen Wirtschaftslage 1943/44”. This report was originally conceived as a basis for future war economy planning. In August 1944 Albert Speer forwarded a slightly modified version of this document to all ministers, Reichsleiter and Gauleiter. The report provides a short but comprehensive survey of the German war economy′s performance between the beginning of the War and mid-1944 from the perspective of those responsible. The report can be understood as a war economy programme of the Speer ministry and provides some hitherto unknown information, which poses new questions.

Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 0042-5702
Volume: 55, 03/2007
Pages: 499 - 546

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