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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 2, 1933-1945 (History of the...
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by Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Sales Rank: 940075
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 280 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press November 29, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807825743
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807825747
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Review
Mierzejewski's book will be the standard work on the German National Railway for years to come.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Essential reading for all scholars of modern Germany.
Central European History
Mierzejewski has done a wonderful job.
Business History
An account that is elaborate, circumspect, and thoroughly convincing.
Central European History
Essential.
Historische Zeitschrift
Product Description
The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski offers the first complete account of the national railway under Hitler's regime.
Mierzejewski uses sources that include Nazi Party membership records and Reichsbahn internal memoranda to explore the railway's operations, finances, and political and social roles from 1933 to 1945. He looks at the Reichsbahn's role in German rearmament, its own lack of preparations for war, and its participation in Germany's military operations. He shows that despite successfully resisting Nazi efforts to politicize its internal functions, the Reichsbahn cooperated with the government's anti-Semitic policies. Indeed, the railway played a crucial role in the Holocaust by supporting the construction and operation of the Nazi death camps and by transporting Jews and other victims to them.
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Mierzejewski has done a thorough job of documenting the Deutsche Reichsbahn's struggles with and acceptance of the National Socialists and World War II. Mierzejewski provides valuable insights into the railway's management and operations, but through that also provides a look at the inner workings of Nazi Germany. Most foreigners are unaware of the many contradictions in German policies and the compromises made on a daily basis. This book is best read by someone who has either an interest in transportation management or modern German history. It should be in the library of any English-reading person who has those interests. A weak point, as in the previous book in this series, is that it would have helped to have more and detailed maps. The lands that Hitler lost in the East are unfamiliar to most Western readers of English language books. It also has little about operations in the chaos at the very end of the war. This would have required oral histories and military files that are not in the same collections otherwise researched by Mierzejewski. That the accounting data for FY 1944 is only "preliminary" is one symptom of the uproar at the end of the line.
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