Germany

• May 1940 – 3.5 million fewer workers in workforce than 1 year before
• End of 1942 – 6.4 million foreign workers in Germany (during this time around 3 million more German workers were called up/drafted)
• Foreign workers only 60-80% as effective as German workers
• Britian spent half what Germany did in 1940 but produced 50% more aircraft 11 times more armoured cars and nearly as many tanks
• In arms industry, production per head fell by 12.5% between 1939 and 1940
• 1943 –regions like Poland produced 6.7 million tonnes of high-quality iron ore for Nazi war effort
• 1941-43 – numbers in industrial workforce increased by only 11%, production of weapons grew by 130% in same period
• 1943 – output per head in armaments 32% higher than 1939
• Each gun saw a reduction of 93% in the aluminium used
• In munitions, output per worker rose by 60% between 1939 and 1944 despite Allied bombing
• 20% of hosing destroyed and 30% badly damaged
• One person hung a picture of Hitler from homemade gallows in 1943 (this was in a strong working-class left-wing area)
• Only 1% of captured Allied airmen lynched or shot
• 4,300 Romani killed at Chelmno and 20,000 at Auschwitz
• 250,000 Poles and 12,000 Soviet prisoners of war killed at Auschwitz
• As many as two million non-Jewish Polish people murdered by end of war
• 1940 – Warsaw ghetto 15% of city's housing stock but 1/3 of city's population
• Babyn Yar in 1941 – first of the massacres killed some 33,771 Jews
• More than 99% who arrived at Treblinka killed
• Wannsee Conference, 1942 – Jews to 'be conscripted for labour in the east' and survivors to be 'dealt with accordingly'
• 40% of total Jews killed in the Holocaust were killed by mass shooting or burning. 60% were killed by gassing
• Einsatzgruppen killing squads, from 1941 – one document suggests over 363,000 killed between August and November in 1942 in certain regions. In July 1941, 4400 killed in one area. Increased to 38,000+ in August due to increase in police units. Some killing carried out by volunteers
• Defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 turning point, especially for Hitler myth – SS reported a 'general feeling of deep shock'
• 10kg of bread allowed per month at start of war but only 3.6kg allowed by end
• Von Galen's preaching against euthanasia of mentally handicapped adults led to Hitler himself ordering an end to these actions in 1941. Von Galen was too popular to be punished or made a martyr
• Three Catholic priests and a Protestant pastor from Lübeck were executed in Hamburg in 1943 for criticising the Nazi regime
• When two bishops were put under house arrest, the protests were so great that the bishops were released and given an audience with Hitler and the man responsible for the fiasco had to resign
• Edelweiss Pirates killed head of Cologne Gestapo but 739 youth arrested, many sent to labour camps. 1944, leaders of Cologne Gestapo were hung
• 2/3 of KPD members arrested
• July Bomb Plot ('Operation Valkyrie') led to 7000 of Hitler's opponents arrested and 5000 killed
• 1 in 3 women in Berlin raped by Red Army
• Some 12 million Germans expelled from lands they had lived in for centuries after WW2
• Between 350,000 and 500,000 Germans killed during the Allied bombings (some places suggest slightly more or less)
• 20 million Germans were homeless after/as a result of WW2
• 20% of housing destroyed and 30% badly damaged
• By 1951, 94% of judges and prosecutors in Bavaria (I think this was in West Germany) were former Nazis
• Good evidence that 10% of the adult male population remained convinced Nazis (after the war I would guess)
• Airlift had to deliver 2000 tonnes of supplies a day
• Economy grew 30% between March and August 1948 in Western Sector/West Germany due to currency reform and end of price controls
• Parties had to gain 5% to be represented