Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production

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The Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production was a Nazi German government ministry, led by Albert Speer, responsible for organizing and maximizing the Third Reich’s military industrial output during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi government agency
government ministry
associatedWith German aircraft production
German munitions production
German tank production
V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
collaboratedWith Four Year Plan Office
German Army High Command
Kriegsmarine High Command
Luftwaffe High Command
Reich Ministry of Economics
conflict World War II
country Nazi Germany
deputy Karl-Otto Saur
headOfGovernmentBody Albert Speer
historicalRole central organizer of Nazi Germany war economy
key institution in prolonging German war effort
ideology Nazism
industry armaments industry
war production
jurisdiction German Reich
linked to: Nazi Germany
leader Albert Speer
minister Albert Speer
notableEmployee Erhard Milch
Fritz Todt
Hans Kehrl
Hermann Göring
Karl-Otto Saur
Walter Rohland
officeHolder Albert Speer
Karl-Otto Saur
partOf Government of Nazi Germany
linked to: Reich government
politicalAlignment National Socialist German Workers Party
linked to: Nazi Party
precededBy Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions
replaces Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions
responsibleFor allocation of raw materials for armaments
coordination of German armaments production
coordination of war-related industrial output
increasing efficiency of military production
mobilization of German industry for total war
standardization of weapons production
use of forced labor in armaments production
subordinateTo Adolf Hitler
Führer and Reich Chancellor
timePeriod World War II
usedLaborFrom concentration camp prisoners
forced laborers
foreign civilian workers
prisoners of war

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Office of the Four Year Plan conflictWith Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production replaces Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production precededBy Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Third Reich economic bureaucracy includesAgency Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Albert Speer positionHeld Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Hans Kehrl employer Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Organisation Todt subordinateTo Ministry of Armaments and War Production
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Organisation Todt replacedBy Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Reich Ministry of Economics cooperatedWith Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Eduard Houdremont affiliatedWith Nazi Germany war production apparatus
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler hasPart Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Karl-Otto Saur employer Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Organisation Todt subordinateTo Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
subject linked to: OT
Ministry of Munitions (Japan) modeledAfter German Ministry of Armaments and War Production
linked to: Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production partOf Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Hans Kammler employer Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
subject linked to: SS General Hans Kammler