Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production

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Nazi government agency government ministry

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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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions	2
Ministry of Armaments and War Production	1
Nazi Germany war production apparatus	1
Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi government agency ⓘ government ministry ⓘ
associatedWith	German aircraft production ⓘ German munitions production ⓘ German tank production ⓘ V-2 rocket ⓘ surface form: V-2 rocket program
collaboratedWith	Office of the Four Year Plan ⓘ surface form: Four Year Plan Office OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) ⓘ surface form: 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	Nazi Germany ⓘ surface form: German Reich
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	Reich government ⓘ surface form: Government of Nazi Germany
politicalAlignment	Nazi Party ⓘ surface form: National Socialist German Workers Party
precededBy	Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions
replaces	Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eduard Houdremont → affiliatedWith → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nazi Germany war production apparatus

Office of the Four Year Plan → conflictWith → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Reich Ministry of Economics → cooperatedWith → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Hans Kehrl → employer → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Karl-Otto Saur → employer → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Cabinet of Adolf Hitler → hasPart → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Third Reich economic bureaucracy → includesAgency → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Albert Speer → positionHeld → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production

Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production → precededBy → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions

Organisation Todt → replacedBy → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production → replaces → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions

Organisation Todt → subordinateTo → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ministry of Armaments and War Production