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“DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?”
Albert Speer and the Economic Mobilization of the Third Reich
World War II in Europe
The Krupp Steel Foundry in Essen(1912 postcard)
Postcard of the Krupp Works
sent home by a French soldier in
1923
Hitler has traveled to Essen to
congratulate Gustav Krupp on his 70th birthday, August 7, 1940
“Comrade of Labor, You are
Fighting with Us: Preserve Your
Strength!”
“As we fight, so should you
work for victory!”
(ca. 1942)
“DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?”(Goebbels at the Berlin Sports Palace, February 18,
1943)
Hitler and Martin Bormann greet the Nazi Gauleiter
at the “Wolf’s Lair” in East Prussia, February 7, 1943.
They have all just been appointed “National Defense
Commissars” as part of the “Total War” campaign
Albert Speer observes naval exercises with
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, 1943
(Goebbels decreed maximum press
coverage of Speer’s achievements)
Albert Speer’s plan from 1942 to grant industrialists
“self-responsibility” (see Speer, pp. 208-12)
Albert Speer and Robert Ley hand out the “Knight’s Cross” to businessmen who have boosted arms
output, June 1943
The wheat harvest in downtown Berlin, August 1943
“Ready to strive for victory, women do their manly duty in Germany’s arms factories” (March 1940) See Speer,
219-21
A German farmwife must plow the field and tend her small child, spring 1940
Young, unmarried women report for labor conscription, summer 1940
“Get Rid of your old Cloth and
Shoes!”(recycling
poster, May/June 1943)
“Woman as Air Raid
Warden!”
Robert Ley addresses some of the 7 million “foreign work comrades” laboring in German
factories in August 1944
Russian women conscripted for labor, fall 1941,
and their barracks in
eastern Germany
Conscripted workers from
many countries, deployed for
labor on the big agricultural
estates of East Elbia, 1942
“The Enemy Sees Your
Light! Maintain Blackout!”
(1941)
Residents of Hamburg spend the night in an air raid shelter
“Where is Frau Brylla?”
A soldier on leave finds his
home a heap of rubble in
Hamburg in 1943
“The Jew:Warmonger,
War-Prolonger”(1942/43)
“Mothers, Fight for Your
Children!”(ca. 1944):Goebbels’ appeals for
further struggle became ever
more terrifying, with German
women depicted as victims
“VICTORYor
BOLSHEVISM”(1944)