Table of Contents

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

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On the series: "This is a work of the highest importance, not only for military historians, but for all students of world history in the twentieth century." --Michael Howard, English Historical Review