{"product_id":"the-collapse-of-the-german-war-economy-19441945-allied-air-power-and-the-german-national-railway","title":"The Collapse of the German War Economy  1944-1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based  original study of German wartime industry and transportation  and of Allied air force planning and intelligence  including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway.  The German industrial economy was extraordinarily dependent on the timely  adequate distribution of coal by railroad and inland waterway. The German National Railway in particular was the pivot of the finely balanced armaments production and distribution system created by Albert Speer. But Allied strategists did not immediately recognize this. Only in late 1944  when Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Sir Arthur Tedder built a new strategic consensus  was this vital coal\/transport nexus severed. The result was the rapid paralysis of the Nazi war economy.  Mierzejewski measures the economic consequences of the bombing by considering broad indices such as armaments and coal production  railway performance  and weapons deliveries to the armed forces. In addition  he shows how individual companies in each of Germanys major economic regions fared. By drawing on previously unexamined files of private German manufacturing companies  the Reich Transportation Ministry  and Allied air intelligence agencies  Mierzejewski creates a rare combination of economic analysis and military history that provides new perspectives on the German war economy and Allied air intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958200070197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807817929","price":173.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807817926.jpg?v=1770368783","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collapse-of-the-german-war-economy-19441945-allied-air-power-and-the-german-national-railway","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}