Transcript Berghof Home Movies 1

“DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?”
Albert Speer and the Economic
Mobilization of the Third Reich
World War II in Europe
The Krupp Steel
Foundry in Essen
(1912 postcard)
Postcard of the
Krupp Works sent
home by a French
soldier in 1923
Hitler has traveled to
Essen to congratulate
Gustav Krupp on his
70th birthday,
August 7, 1940
“Comrade of Labor,
You are Fighting
with Us:
Preserve Your
Strength!”
“As we fight, so
should you work
for victory!”
(ca. 1942)
“DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?”
(Goebbels at the Berlin Sports Palace, February 18, 1943)
Hitler and Martin Bormann greet the Nazi Gauleiter
at the “Wolf’s Lair” in East Prussia, February 7, 1943.
They have all just been appointed “National Defense
Commissars” as part of the “Total War” campaign
Albert Speer observes
naval exercises with
Grand Admiral Karl
Dönitz, 1943
(Goebbels decreed
maximum press
coverage of Speer’s
achievements)
Albert Speer’s plan from 1942 to grant industrialists
“self-responsibility” (see Speer, pp. 208-12)
Albert Speer and Robert Ley hand out the “Knight’s Cross” to
businessmen who have boosted arms output, June 1943
The wheat harvest in downtown Berlin, August 1943
“Ready to strive for
victory, women do their
manly duty in
Germany’s arms
factories” (March 1940)
See Speer, 219-21
A German farmwife must plow the field and tend her
small child, spring 1940
Young, unmarried women report for labor conscription,
summer 1940
“Get Rid of your
old Cloth and
Shoes!”
(recycling poster,
May/June 1943)
“Woman as Air
Raid Warden!”
Robert Ley addresses some of the 7 million “foreign work
comrades” laboring in German factories in August 1944
Russian women
conscripted for
labor, fall 1941, and
their barracks in
eastern Germany
Conscripted workers
from many
countries, deployed
for labor on the big
agricultural estates
of East Elbia, 1942
“The Enemy Sees
Your Light!
Maintain
Blackout!”
(1941)
Residents of Hamburg spend the night
in an air raid shelter
“Where is Frau
Brylla?”
A soldier on leave
finds his home a
heap of rubble in
Hamburg in 1943
“The Jew:
Warmonger,
War-Prolonger”
(1942/43)
“Mothers, Fight for
Your Children!”
(ca. 1944):
Goebbels’ appeals
for further struggle
became ever more
terrifying, with
German women
depicted as victims
“VICTORY
or
BOLSHEVISM”
(1944)