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