What Were The Wehrmacht's Human, Monetary and Resource Costs?

What reference material do you use to determine how many more artillary, bombers, bombs, bullets, fighters, rounds, shells, ships, submarines, tanks, tractors, trucks, etc. could realistically produce? How do you determine what materials could be used to produce different items than they were used for IOTL? I am considering writing what would probably turn out be a very poor timeline. At least I can try to make it somewhat realistic. Anything else I should know on this subject?
 

RousseauX

Donor
that's really complicated and sounds like a massive undertaking

closest source I can think of is wages of destruction read the chapter on albert speer
 
What production mix? For example is your Nazi Germany worried about heavy bomber attacks and producing thousands of heavy flak guns and millions of shells? Or is it putting more effort into bombers of its own? How much effort is being put into underground factories? Etc

What is the size of your Nazi Germany? Is it the pre-war borders? Or is it all of Europe? What about the raw material and food resources? Are there imports and if so from where and how much?

Michael
 
What production mix? For example is your Nazi Germany worried about heavy bomber attacks and producing thousands of heavy flak guns and millions of shells? Or is it putting more effort into bombers of its own? How much effort is being put into underground factories? Etc

What is the size of your Nazi Germany? Is it the pre-war borders? Or is it all of Europe? What about the raw material and food resources? Are there imports and if so from where and how much?

Michael
First, I never said that I was doing a Nazi timeline. Second, I said that I wanted to make it realistic not ultra ASB. I don't think your advice will be helpful.
 

nbcman

Donor
First, I never said that I was doing a Nazi timeline. Second, I said that I wanted to make it realistic not ultra ASB. I don't think your advice will be helpful.
Regardless of whether it would be a German timeline, some basic information would be useful. Is the country you are considering industrialized (USA, UK) or less industrialized (Italy, Japan)? Is it a land based country (Germany, USSR) or is it protected by water (USA, GB, Japan)? Is the country relatively rich and has easy access to financial markets or is it poor and in debt?

As an example, Germany was spending about 17% of their GDP in 1938 on their military by using some financing trickery (Mefo bonds) while the UK was spending about half that percentage - 8%. During wartime, those percentages of GDP go higher such as the US at 41%, the UK at 52% and Germany at over 60%. For the costs of weapon systems, they can be googled. For example, a M4 Sherman tank cost between $45k and $65k per unit (1945 US Dollars) depending on configuration per their Wiki page. This page lists costs for infantry weapons, tanks and artillery for some countries.

EDIT: Also you can use this list of lend lease equipment to the Soviets that has some weapon categories in it such as aircraft, ammunition and other items. Note that the US lend leased various other items such as $400 in lipstick, 13,328 teeth, and a single pipe, tobacco valued at $10.
 
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Regardless of whether it would be a German timeline, some basic information would be useful. Is the country you are considering industrialized (USA, UK) or less industrialized (Italy, Japan)? Is it a land based country (Germany, USSR) or is it protected by water (USA, GB, Japan)? Is the country relatively rich and has easy access to financial markets or is it poor and in debt?

As an example, Germany was spending about 17% of their GDP in 1938 on their military by using some financing trickery (Mefo bonds) while the UK was spending about half that percentage - 8%. During wartime, those percentages of GDP go higher such as the US at 41%, the UK at 52% and Germany at over 60%. For the costs of weapon systems, they can be googled. For example, a M4 Sherman tank cost between $45k and $65k per unit (1945 US Dollars) depending on configuration per their Wiki page. This page lists costs for infantry weapons, tanks and artillery for some countries.

EDIT: Also you can use this list of lend lease equipment to the Soviets that has some weapon categories in it such as aircraft, ammunition and other items. Note that the US lend leased various other items such as $400 in lipstick, 13,328 teeth, and a single pipe, tobacco valued at $10.
Thanks for the info. I did mean 1930's Deutschland but that doesn't necessarily mean Nazis. Also, as moneytary cost per item changes over time with changes in values for materials, production efficiency ,etc. I am more interested in how much steel, rubber, aluminum, etc. went into various things as well as personnel required for staffing and maintenance as well as any relatively stable monetary costs.
 

longsword14

Banned
Keep Wages of Destruction as an intro. The best work on the Third Reich is Germany and the Second World War which has 13 volumes. For economic topics see Volume 5 : Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939–1941 ( Part 1 ) and Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942–1944/5 ( Part 2 ).
 
Keep Wages of Destruction as an intro. The best work on the Third Reich is Germany and the Second World War which has 13 volumes. For economic topics see Volume 5 : Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939–1941 ( Part 1 ) and Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942–1944/5 ( Part 2 ).
Wow, that I quite a bit of reading, Thanks.
 
Whoa, slow up there Mike has done a LOT of research on all the stuff you are asking for, don't be so quick to dismiss someone asking questions to help you here.

He doesn't want help thats an easily meet request from my end. Thread ignored.

Michael
 
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