The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich
Subtitle: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932 (History of the German National Railway)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780807824962
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Railway transport industries; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History - General History; Transportation; Germany - History - Third Reich (1933-1945); Specific Railroads; Railroads - History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; Political History; Transportation / Railroads / History; Railroads - General; 20th century; Deutsche Reichsbahn (Germany); History; Railroads and state; Bavaria; Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft; Germany; reparations; Dawes Plan; technology; cost accounting; scientific management; modal competition; freight traffic; Schenker forwarding company; Young Plan; Depression; unemployment; rearmament; diesel; motor trains; passenger; World War II; Wehrmacht; armaments industry; death camps; Jews; strategic bombing; Johannes Bell; Heinrich Bruning; cartels; counter-cyclical spending; Julius Dorpmuller; Peter Paul Eltz-Rubenach; Fliegender Hamburger; Albert Ganenmuller; Wilhelm Groener; high-speed trains; Holocaust; Ludwig M. Homberger; job creation; locomotive industry; Rudolf Oeser; passenger traffic; rearmament; Reichsbahn-Zentralamt; Rheingold; luxury passenger train; Carl Friedrich Siemens; Adam Stegerwald; unit trains; Young Plan
First sentence: In March 1919 a Bavarian yardmaster reported to his superiors the chaos that reigned in his yard.