Lecture 11: The downfall of the Third Reich, 1943-45 30 April 2013 HIST2134 The Third Reich through Documents, 1933-1945.

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Lecture 11: The downfall of the Third Reich, April 2013 HIST2134 The Third Reich through Documents,

NS Economy: 3 Phases NS ‘economic miracle’ & rearmament, Four Year Plan & early war economy, Total War economy: Era Speer,

Total War Economy (1) Albert Speer as minister for total war economy ↓ → Strict centralisation to increase industrial output → Minimum freedom of private industry → ‘Slave work’ by forced labour & camp prisoners = Initially very successful strategy: Speer most powerful Nazi & possible successor of Hitler

Total War Economy (2) Weapon + ammunition + aircraft production (3 x higher) - Tanks production (7 x higher) Limited modernization + rationalization effects Not all industrial capacities fully exploited = Compared to USA: 3 x lower production = General inferiority of Axis powers’ war economy ≠ Allies: Impossible to overcome

Foreign policy 4-phase-model Revisionist and high-risk foreign politics, Expansionist foreign politics, 1938/39 Blitz Wars and ideological warfare, Total War and downfall,

‘Unconditional Surrender’ Allied GB-US-SU conference in Casablanca, 25 Jan 1943  Strict demand of G’s ‘unconditional surrender’: → Increased popular support for NS regime → Weakened inner-German resistance → Stimulated Goebbels’ Total War propaganda, 18 Feb 1943  Ambivalent effects: Short-term pro NS regime, long- term contra NS

Battle of Berlin, Apr-May 1945 Successful operation of SU armies vs. German capital: Marriage of Hitler & Eva Braun followed by joint suicide Last Reich government under Admiral Dönitz arrested by GB forces Successive military capitulations in Italy, 29 Apr 1945, + South & Northwest Germany, 4 May 1945 = Unconditional surrenders in Reims, 7 May 1945 (for West) + Berlin-Karlshorst, 8 May 1945 (for SU) = End of WW II in Europe + downfall of Third Reich