From first to "wurst": the erosion and implosion of German technology during WWII: the German management system, especially in terms of the technological industry, was a complex and convoluted bureaucratic nightmare

Air Force Journal of Logistics,  Summer, 2004  by Charles A. Pryor, III

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(16.) Schick and Meyer, 59.

(17.) Ibid.

(18.) Baumbach, 171.

(19.) Alfred Price, The Last Year of the Luftwaffe, May 1944 to May 1945, Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, Publishers and Wholesalers, Inc, 1991, 176.

(20.) Schick and Meyer, 48.

(21.) Ibid.

(22.) Donald, 15.

(23.) Brian Johnson, The Secret War, New York: Methuen, 1978, 16-18.

(24.) Johnson, 18.

(25.) Johnson, 22

(26.) Johnson, 45.

(27.) Johnson, 59.

(28.) Johnson, 38.

(29.) Johnson, 59.

(30.) Schick and Meyer, 7.

(31.) Schick and Meyer, 136.

(32.) Ibid.

(33.) Schick and Meyer, 7.

(34.) Donald, 94.

(35.) Bower, 6.

(30.) Faber, 172.

(37.) Asher Lee, The German Air Force, New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1946, 255.

(38.) Ibid.

(39.) US Strategic Bombing Survey, Interview No 56, Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, 29 Jun 45, 4.

(40.) Alan Milward, The German Economy at War, London: The Athlone Press at University of London, 1965, 69.

(41.) US Group Control Council (Germany), Office of the Director of Intelligence, Field Information Agency, Technical, Intelligence Report No EF/Min/1, Subject: Report No 19, Part I, on the Examination of Albert Speer and Members of the former Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production by O. Hoeffding, 20 Aug 45, 4.

(42.) Examination of Albert Speer and Members of the Former Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, 5.

(43.) R.J. Overy, War and Economy in the Third Reich, Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1994, 344.

(44.) US Strategic Bombing Survey, Interview No 56, 4.

(45.) Baumbach, 56.

(46.) Milward, 48-49.

(47.) Overy, 187.

(48.) Overy, 177.

(49.) Baumbach, 34.

(50.) Lee, 256.

(51.) Faber, 141.

(52.) Baumbach, 171.

(53.) Price, 183.

(54.) The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force. 1933-1945, New York: St Martin's Press, 1983, 407.

(55.) Baumbach, 30.

(56.) Milward, 172.

(57.) US Strategic Bombing Survey. Interview No 56. 4.

(58.) Lee, 266.

Major Pryor is chief, DGZ Construction Programs, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Nebraska. At the time of the writing of this article, he was a student at the Air Command and Staff College.

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