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In order to assess the economic effects of allied bombing during the war, Wagenführ and other German statisticians were interrogated in order to elucidate the statistical files of Speer‘s Planning Office (Planungsamt), the command centre of the German war economy. The article focuses on a recently detected file on the kidnapping of Rolf Wagenführ by US-officers from Berlin to Bad Homburg in the summer of 1945.
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After the war, NS-statistics were put to manifold uses. Indeed, the industrial census of 1936 served both as a benchmark for the restrictions on German production imposed by the allied powers and as an indispensable input for the introduction of the planned economy in East Germany. In addition the NS-statisticians involved were also considered indispensable for interpreting and implementing these statistics.
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This page is a summary of: Zur Bedeutung nationalsozialistischer Statistiken und Statistiker nach dem Krieg, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2016-0023.
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