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The only three companies in 1938 with large foreign subsidiaries were Siemens with 11.2 percent of the workforce employed abroad, Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft with less than 20 percent and Mannesmann with 10 percent. In 1938 seven of the 100 largest German companies were subsidiaries of foreign companies, all of them included in the list.
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While it operated, it produced commodities vital to the German military forces before and during World War II. After substantial damage from strategic bombing, the firm and its remaining assets were dissolved at the end of the war. [214] As Germany deepened its commitment to World War II, Brabag's plants became vital elements of the war effort.
The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men ...
The OT was a co-operative effort of the German government and the German construction industry; the former supplied the manpower and the material, the latter supplied the technical know-how in the form of individual contractors (OT-Firmen) with their staff and equipment. Up to about 1942, the construction companies dominated the OT, but after ...
During WW2 the organization of the Reichspostministerium was as follows: [8] [9] Central organization. Minister: Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1937-1945) Under-Secretary: Jakob Nagel (1937-1945) Administrative Council: Six members; Bureaus: Bureau of foreign and colonial policy; Central Bureau: Feldpost, Postschutz, among other matters
SS-Sturm ("SS-Company"): The Sturm was the company-level formation of the General-SS and the most typical in which an average SS member would associate. Each Sturmbann had 3 to 5 of them. [11] Company commanders usually rated a rank between Untersturmführer and Hauptsturmführer. SS-Trupp ("SS-Troop"): SS-Troops were platoon-sized formations.
The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.