By Lee Kruger
This e-book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in could 1945. This presence required the pursuit of 2 acknowledged missions: to safe German borders, and to set up an profession govt in the assigned U.S. region and area of Berlin. either missions required logistics aid, a serious point usually understated in latest scholarship. the protection project, coated by way of the wrestle troops, declined among 1945 and 1948, yet grew back with the Berlin Blockade/Airlift in 1948, after which back with the Korean main issue in 1950. The logistics challenge grew exponentially to help this protection challenge, because the U.S. military was once the one U.S. govt organization owning the facility and assets to at first help the profession venture in Germany. The build-up of ‘Little Americas’ through the profession years stood forward-deployed U.S. army forces in Europe in reliable stead over the resultant decades.
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Another lesson learned from the First World War by the German armed forces: the economic system needed to prepare for the next war with ROOTS OF THE POST-SECOND WORLD WAR LOGISTICS CHALLENGES... 11 adequate resources, infrastructure capacity and an armed forces economic administrative organization. However, in the early years of the Second World War, execution of production under armed forces management went awry. Overy notes that though the economic system reached near full economic mobilization by the summer of 1941, in spite of the transfers of resources towards increasing armaments production, the total production capacity and therefore output did not expand accordingly.
Further, bottlenecking within the production process, transportation, and energy shortages led Hitler to order an economic strategy of efficiency and rationalization. ”24 This was surely a call toward mass production over the traditional and more time-consuming skilled labor production. Further, Hitler put considerably more responsibility for the wartime economy back into the hands of the industrialists and technical officials, at the expense of the armed forces officials. He appointed to the key wartime economy positions, for example, Albert Speer as the Minister of Armaments and War Production, Ernst Friedrich Sauckel as the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, and Erhard Milch as the Minister for Aircraft Production.
Earl Ziemke provides an example of the German import/export imbalance for the fiscal year 1946: dollar-based import commitments for Germany amounted to $242,285,000 against the total value of exports, $7,277,000. S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944-1946 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, Government Printing Office, 1975), 434. 15. The prospect of a central, German-wide currency reform under US control was anathema to the Soviets unless they could control printing and banking transactions in their zone (Leipzig).