Study prepared in 1947-1948 by a group of former German Army Officers, headed by Generalmajor Hellmuth Reinhardt, who was a branch chief in the Organizational Division of the Army General Staff and deputy chief of the General Army Office, with which this study is concerned. Before World War II the General Army Office planned for the procurement and mobilization of all human, animal and material resources necessary to build the Wehrmacht After the war started it concerned itself principally with the replacement of such resources in the Army.

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