22) wartime economy and work of speer

• when was Germany fully finalised for war?

  1942
• why was Germany's war time economy not mobilised?


  Hitler thought it would be over quickly so didn't call a 'total war' effort

  competing directions from different areas of gov
• appointment of Speer as minister for Armaments


  February 1942
• Speer's Central Planning Agency implementations


  -fewer, but more efficient factories

  -mass production methods

  -factories running 24 hours

  -preventing military conscription of skilled armament workers
• aircraft production between 1942 and 1944


  increased by 200%
• tank production between 1942 and 1944


  increased by 250%
• productivity per worker in munitions factories between 1942 and 1944


  increased by 60%
• In January 1945 what was the calculated result of bombings on tank production?


  35% fewer tanks
• in January 1945, what was the calculated effect of bombings on aircraft production


  31% fewer aircrafts
• in January 1945, what was the calculated effect of bombings on lorries production


  42% fewer lorries
• Goebbels called for "total war" effort


  February 1943
• Fritz Sauckel


  responsible for foreign labour force

  transported 2.8 million forces labourers from Eastern Europe
• how much of the total labour force was made up of foreign labour


  25%
• by 1944, how many foreign labourers in Germany


  7 million and also 7 million working for Germany in occupied countries