Army, industry, and labor in Germany, 1914-1918
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Army, industry, and labor in Germany, 1914-1918
（The legacy of the Great War）
Berg , Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992
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Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1966
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This innovative study by one of the leading specialists in the field examines the social and economic role of the German army in the nation's internal affairs during World War I.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the sociopolitical background
- "burgfrieden" and law of siege. Part 1 The old regime and the dilemmas of total war: the production, manpower, and social policies of the Prussian War Ministry, 1914-1916 - the War Ministry and its leaders, the KRA, production policy and procurement, the battle for manpower, the conflict over social policy
- the army and the internal crisis, 1914-1916 - image and reality - the food problem, bureaucracy, army and the social consequences of the war, the new supreme command. Part 2 Total mobilization and interest-group politics: Hindenburg program and war office - the triumph of heavy industry - the Hindenburg program, military reorganization and civilian mobilization, the war office
- the auxilliary service bill and the triumph of labour - the struggle with the bureaucracy, the demands of the interest groups, the budget committee transforms the bill, the Reichstag debate. Part 3 The war office under the leadership of General Groener: the war office and the problems of production and organization, December 1916-August 1917 - the transportation and coal crises, the failure of the Hindenburg program, the shutting down and consolidation of industries, the war office and the food problem, organizational problems and competing bureaucracies
- the war office and the social problem 1 - the failure of the auxilliary service law and the first major strikes - the labour problem, the dilemmas of paragraph 9, the war office and the unions, war office conflicts with industry and the OHL, the April strikes
- the war office and the social problem 2 - the great crisis and the dismissal of Groener, May-August 1917 - the intensification of social conflict, the army and the great crisis, the attack upon Groener, the fall of Groener. Part 4 The failure of the army: the Ludendorff "dictatorship", August 1917-February 1918 - attempts to reform the auxilliary service law, Koeth's triumph, the uncertain dictatorship, the OHL and the great strikes
- Germany in the concluding months of the war - the defeat and the search for a scapegoat - the social consequences of the war, army and society, a final demand for total mobilization, "stab in the back" and "revolution from above".
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