Who was Hitler's Armaments Minister during World War 11
"They set up the ""Armaments Inspection Board"" in 1940 to relay munitions orders to factories; the Board came under the control of the German Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer in 1943, and had offices in industrial areas that were supposed to facilitate orders for materiél, and supervise production. However, factory production fell sharply after 1942. Although collaboration with the Nazis, especially among the Flemish, was evident in 1940, it soon faded in importance. Labor strikes and systematic sabotage slowed production, as did the emigration of workers to rural areas, Allied bombing, food shortages, and worker resentment of forced labor. The"
"Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As ""the Nazi who said sorry"", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he had been ignorant of the Holocaust. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching himself on a political and governmental career which lasted"
"didn't know anything about [the Holocaust]. Just look at the ""Führer""s friend, he didn't know about it either. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As ""the Nazi who said sorry"", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting"
"Minister for Armament and Ammunition"" Albert Speer regarding the nuclear weapon project, had decided its continuation merely for the aim of energy production. On 9 June 1942, Adolf Hitler issued a decree for the reorganization of the RFR as a separate legal entity under the ""Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition"" (RMBM, Reich Ministry for Armament and Ammunition, after late 1943 the Reich Ministry for Armament and War Production); the decree appointed Reich Marshal Hermann Göring as the president. The reorganization was done under the initiative of Minister Albert Speer of the RMBM; it was necessary as the RFR under Bernhard"
"not possible to bring him to America, but he was employed by the US for ten years in chemical warfare research in West Germany. Walter Schieber Walter Schieber (13 September 1896 – 29 June 1960) was an SS Brigadeführer in Nazi Germany, who during the Second World War served as head of the Armaments Supply Office under Albert Speer. In 1943, Adolf Hitler awarded Schieber the War Merit Cross. After the war, the US government became interested in hiring Schieber for scientific research purposes. A 1947 U.S. Air Force memo stated that ""Dr. Schieber's talents are of so important a"
"in a 1942 plane crash, Saur became official deputy to the new armaments minister Albert Speer. Saur was seen as particularly ruthless in the enforcement of military targets, was involved in all aspects of increasing production including orders that regulated the flow of slave labour towards the end of World War II. From March 1944, he managed the day-to-day operations of the Jägerstab (Fighter Staff), a task force established by Speer to drive increase in fighter aircraft production. In his political testament, Adolf Hitler named Karl-Otto Saur as the new defence minister (Minister of Munitions (""Rüstung"")). From May 1945 Saur"
"equipment, and the saving of labor, raw materials and energy"". The Badge of Honor came with a material prize and a certificate, was awarded as a medal made of gold, silver, or steel. The Golden Award of Honor was presented by Hitler in person upon proposal by the responsible Gauleiter, upon the joint proposal of Robert Ley, the director of the corresponding Deutsche Arbeitsfront and NSDAP leaders, and the director of the ""Main office for Technology in the NSDAP"", Albert Speer. Fritz Todt Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who"
"Karl Saur Karl-Otto Saur (February 16, 1902 in Düsseldorf – July 28, 1966 in Pullach) was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for armaments and war production in Germany during the Nazi era and de jure last defence minister of the Third Reich. Saur was an engineer by profession. After graduation, he joined Thyssen AG, where he became the director of the August Thyssen-Hütte. He was a member of the NSDAP from 1931. He joined the National Socialist Guild of German Engineers and the Todt Organization where he rose to be the right-hand man to Fritz Todt. Following Todt's death"
"Inside the Third Reich Inside the Third Reich (, ""Memories"") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them. First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970. At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in"
"Reich War Minister and Commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg. Hitler took the chance to get rid of his critics within the armed forces. The Reich War Ministry was dissolved and replaced with the OKW led by devoted General Wilhelm Keitel in the rank of a Reich Minister, with Alfred Jodl as Chief of the Operations Staff. Nevertheless, all Supreme Commanders of the armed service branches, like OKH Chief General Walther von Brauchitsch, had direct access to Hitler and were able to circumvent Keitel's command. The appointments made to the OKW and the motive behind the reorganization are"
"weapon. In April 1990, the FODTP certified the G11 for use with the Bundeswehr. In May 1990, Tilo Möller, then H&K chief of R&D, presented the G11 to military dignitaries. At the same time the Cabinet of Germany (Bundesregierung) confirmed questions by the Bundestag about the signing of a contract in early 1990 for the adoption of the G11 and that it is part the budget (Haushalt 1990 EPL 14). If it is adopted the front line troops would receive it first. Adoption numbers would be guided by yearly planned G3 replacement numbers up to the year 2002. The volume"
"beginning of the 1960s under his son Klaus Gerhard Saur. Karl Saur Karl-Otto Saur (February 16, 1902 in Düsseldorf – July 28, 1966 in Pullach) was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for armaments and war production in Germany during the Nazi era and de jure last defence minister of the Third Reich. Saur was an engineer by profession. After graduation, he joined Thyssen AG, where he became the director of the August Thyssen-Hütte. He was a member of the NSDAP from 1931. He joined the National Socialist Guild of German Engineers and the Todt Organization where he rose to"
"Germany began working on designs for both heavy and light tanks, but only a small number of prototypes were completed by the end of the War. After the Armistice, all tanks in German hands were confiscated. Almost all were eventually scrapped, and the various postwar treaties forbade the former Central Powers from building or possessing tanks. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Although he initially headed a coalition government, he quickly eliminated his government partners. He ignored the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) and began rearming, approving the development of many German"
"11th SS Panzer Army The 11th SS Panzer Army (""SS-Panzer-Armeeoberkommando 11"") was not much more than a paper army formed in February 1945 by Heinrich Himmler while he was commander of Army Group Vistula. The military historian Antony Beevor wrote that when the 11th SS Panzer Army was created the available units at best could constitute a corps, ""'But panzer army' observed Hans-Georg Eismann 'has a better ring to it'"". It also allowed Himmler to promote SS officers to senior staff and field commands within the formation. ""Obergruppenführer"" Felix Steiner was named its commander. The Army was officially listed as"
"architectural plans for Berlin. In Jan. 1938, Hitler gave Speer the task of building the new German Chancellery. In Speer's words, it was to be ""an architectural stage set of imperial majesty."" However, Hitler's favorite architectural project with Speer was their plans for rebuilding Berlin, the Welthauptstadt Germania. In 1942, Hitler appointed Speer as the new Minister of Armaments and Munitions, following the death of Fritz Todt in a plane crash. This included responsibility for construction assignments such as the Organization Todt. Under Speer, German arms production improved. Speer adopted ""industrial self-responsibility"" as advocated by Walther Rathenau. Under Speer, ""a"
"Walter Schieber Walter Schieber (13 September 1896 – 29 June 1960) was an SS Brigadeführer in Nazi Germany, who during the Second World War served as head of the Armaments Supply Office under Albert Speer. In 1943, Adolf Hitler awarded Schieber the War Merit Cross. After the war, the US government became interested in hiring Schieber for scientific research purposes. A 1947 U.S. Air Force memo stated that ""Dr. Schieber's talents are of so important a nature to the U.S. that they go far to override any consideration of his political background"". In the end, Schieber's profile meant it was"
"seem to have been lost and their whereabouts are unknown. Albert Speer, who was the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany, confirmed the authenticity of Picker's German edition in his 1976 memoirs. Speer stated that Hitler often spoke at length about his favorite subjects while dinner guests were reduced to silent listeners. In the presence of his ""superiors by birth and education"" Hitler made a sincere effort to ""present his thoughts in as impressive manner as possible"". Speer noted that ""we must remember that this collection includes only those passages in Hitler's monologues—they took up one to two"
"Hitler were it to prove successful. Because of the plot's failure, such a government never rose to power and most of its members were executed. The following were slated for these roles as of July 1944: Albert Speer was listed in several notes of the conspirators as a possible Minister of Armaments; however, most of these notes stated Speer should not be approached until after Hitler was dead and one conjectural government chart had a question mark beside Speer's name. This most likely saved Speer from arrest by the SS in addition to Speer being one of Hitler's closest and"
"SS member #1 and outranked Heinrich Himmler). Hitler also technically qualified for every Nazi political decoration, but in practice only wore his World War I Iron Cross, the Golden Nazi Party Pin, and the Wound badge in Black. During Nazi rallies at Nuremberg in the early 1930s, Hitler temporarily wore the 1929 Nuremberg Party Day Badge, but discontinued this after about 1935. Six days after being sworn in as Chancellor in 1933, Hitler met with the German military leaders, declaring that his first priority was rearmament. The new Defense Minister, General Werner von Blomberg, introduced Nazi principles into the armed"
"fitted better into the NSDAP than into the SPD"". SPD politician Johannes Kahrs, a leading contemporary representative of the moderate wing of the SPD, has described Gustav Noske as one of his political role models. Gustav Noske Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (""Reichswehrminister"") of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske has been a controversial figure because, although he was a member of the socialist movement, he used army and paramilitary forces to bloodily suppress"
"aviation engine plants, parts and sub-assembly fabrication and final assembly manufacturing facilities; Luftwaffe training and logistics could have otherwise sustained. Further, in going for targets they knew the Germans must defend, the new American escort fighters were able to inflict crippling losses on the Luftwaffe's fighter force. However it should be pointed out that the RAF also made a great contribution to the oil offensive as its abilities to attack precision targets had greatly improved since the arrival of new navigation and target-finding instruments; by mid-1944 it was also mounting huge bombing raids in daylight. Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of"
"in July 1934. When the Defense Ministry was reorganized as the War Ministry (""Reichskriegministerium"") under Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany and dictator since 1933, in 1935 to match Hitler's simultaneous dissolution of the Reichswehr and creation of the greatly expanded, war-oriented Wehrmacht, Wietersheim was made the ""Oberquartiermeister"" I (O. Qu. I) of the General Staff. This position, ""immediately subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff,"" entailed the control of several departments of General Staff, ""carrying command of the operations, transport and supply sections."" As the General Staff was put on a war footing, this high-level logistics command was a"
"and Navy. On 8 February 1942 Fritz Todt was killed in an air crash. He was replaced by Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect. Speer retained overall control of the OT as Minister of Armaments and War Production but gave Dorsch the authority to run it as he saw fit, in effect making him the operational chief of the OT. In recognition of his service, Dorsch was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords on 13 May 1943. However, the relationship between Speer and Dorsch was strained. A major bone of contention was the fact that the"
"were the Reich Foreign Minister, Baron Konstantin von Neurath; the Reich War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg; the Army Commander, General Werner von Fritsch; the Kriegsmarine Commander, Admiral Erich Raeder; and the Luftwaffe Commander, Hermann Göring. The conference of 5 November 1937 had been called in response to complaints from Admiral Raeder that the navy (""Kriegsmarine"") was receiving insufficient allocations of steel and other raw materials and that its entire building programme was thus in danger of collapse. Neither the air force (""Luftwaffe"") nor the army (""Wehrmacht"") wanted to see any reductions of their steel allocations. As the conference"
"and instead of supporting the Papen government demanded the Chancellorship for himself. Specifically, on 5 August 1932, Hitler and Schleicher held a secret meeting, in which Hitler demanded that he become Chancellor and the Ministries of the Interior and Justice go to Nazis; Schleicher could remain as Defense Minister. The rest of the proposed cabinet was that Goebbels was to serve as Education Minister, Goring as Air Minister, Strasser as Interior Minister, and Darré as Agricultural Minister, while Hermann Warmbold was to continue as Economics Minister, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as Finance Minister, and Hjalmar Schacht was to be"
"wanted to remove Schleicher as defence minister as soon as possible. Two days later, on 30 January 1933, Hindenburg swore in Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, after telling him that Blomberg was to be his defence minister regardless of his wishes. Hitler for his part welcomed and accepted Blomberg. Hitler told Blomberg, much to his satisfaction, that he wanted the Army to continue to be the main military force of the ""Reich"". In 1933, Blomberg rose to national prominence when he was appointed Minister of Defence in Hitler's government. Blomberg became one of Hitler's most devoted followers, working feverishly to expand"
"products such as household pottery. Prof. Karl Diebitsch, was an Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS, and Himmler’s personal referent on art. Prof. Theodor Kärner was (besides Diebitsch) one of Germany’s most prestigious artists in porcelain. Kärner also worked with Meissen, Rosenthal and Hutschenreuther. Allach was a sub-camp of Dachau near Munich, located approximately 16 km from the main camp at Dachau. According to Marcus J. Smith, who wrote ""Dachau: The Harrowing of Hell,"" the Allach camp was divided into two enclosures, one for 3,000 Jewish inmates and the other for 6,000 non-Jewish prisoners. Smith was a doctor in the US military,"
"for military affairs (war minister). Officially he became minister under Martin Segitz on March 1, 1919. Under Segitz's successor Johannes Hoffmann he could not hold his post after March 17, 1919, because he was member of the USPD. So the Zentralrat (central council) suggested to the Rätekongress to vote for Ernst Schneppenhorst, who was a member of the Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany (MSPD). Richard Scheid Richard Scheid (born May 11, 1876 – February 19, 1962) was a Bavarian author, unionist and politician of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). Scheid was president of the Munich labor"
"The maker of the cauldron is believed to have been Otto Gahr, a Nazi Party member, silversmith and favoured jeweller to the Nazi elite. Gahr crafted the silver ""death's head"" rings worn by SS members. In an interview with National Geographic, jeweler Maximillian Heiden opined that Gahr would have been the obvious choice of the Nazi Party for such a project. According to Max Heiden, Otto Gahr, primarily a silversmith, probably sought out Alfred Notz for his expertise in working with gold. Furthermore, Nazi documents dated April 1945 were found in an attic in Germany in 2011. The papers, which"
"Allies came near the city, the military governor, Dietrich von Choltitz was to detonate these bombs, leaving Paris ""lying in complete debris."" Von Choltitz, however, did not carry out the order and surrendered to the Allies. Its most pertinent section reads as follows: The decree was in vain. The responsibility for carrying it out fell on Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production. Speer was appalled by the order and lost faith in the dictator. Just as von Choltitz had several months earlier, Speer deliberately failed to carry out the order. Upon receiving it, he requested to be"
"1945). His predecessor, Karl Becker, had committed suicide because he was unable to properly supply the field units with ammunition. During this period, Leeb also served as an advisor to the Works Company for Weapons and Mechanical Engineering, which was directed by Hermann Göring in Berlin (17 January 1941 – 29 December 1942), and he then served as a member of the Armaments Advisory Service (December 1942 - 1 May 1945). In late 1944, Leeb's section became part of Heinrich Himmler's Replacement Army. Leeb retired on 1 May 1945, the day following Adolf Hitler's death. Emil Leeb Emil Leeb (17"
"equipment in Europe and mandates the destruction of excess weaponry. In January 1992, the Federal Audit Office (Bundesrechnungshof) recommended not to procure the G11 just yet and Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg struck the G11 from the procurement list. On April 1, 1990, the Warsaw Pact dissolved leaving West Germany with a surplus of hundreds of thousands of Kalashnikovs. The development of the G11 from 1974 to 1989 had cost the tax payer 84.1 million DM, while leaving H&K with a debt of 180 million DM. H&K was permitted by the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bundesamt für Wirtschaft"
"Aviation Ministry with the aim of increasing fighter aircraft production. The task force was established by Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production in the Hitler Cabinet, with support from Erhard Milch of the Reich Aviation Ministry. While Speer and Milch played a key role in directing the activities of the agency, the day-to-day operations were handled by Chief of Staff Karl Saur, a previous head of the Technical Office in the Armaments Ministry. The organisation consisted of multiple committees, including the Airframes Main Committee, Equipment Main Committee and Development Main Committee, that coordinated the work on the"