While the width armament aims at the production of weapons and armaments, it concerns to the armament during the depth armament around the durable safety device of necessary resources for arms production, to a certain extent thus the "lastingness". It is the longer and more comprehensive from all the greater importance, a war is.

Meaning

Depth armament was in the reason always with longer military arguments of importance. Thus it applied to ensure the supply at suitable wood for the building from ships in the antique one with naval warfares to. However was the analytic separation from deep and width armament to in 19. Century inside insignificantly, because the material need at armaments was relatively small and these armaments in addition also comparatively simply to be manufactured was.

20. Century

The concept of the depth armament won in 20. Century strongly at meaning, because the wars became more complex more material-intensively and the weapons. Thus the First World War, with which at the beginning of only on one duration by few weeks one counted, led all war parties the meaning of the own and the opposing Industriepotenzials before eyes. The longer it lasted, the more importantly became non-military factors such as supply of raw materials and production capacities.

From it the realm resistance and later the National Socialist regime drew its teachings and tried a coming war accordingly to prepare. Thus for example on a large scale operated synthetic production of fuel can be understood as depth armament. However the means were not available, in order to operate equally deep as width armament. The guidance decided with its blitzkrieg strategy in the long run for the fast production of many weapons and thus for neglect of the depth armament. At first this seemed to have been correct, how the fast victories showed over Poland and France. But with progressive war duration this way proved as dead end. The industrielle basis of the third realm was too narrow, in order to be able to exist against opponents like the Soviet Union and above all the United States.

Literature

• Thomas, Georg: History of the German military and arms economy 1918 - 1943/45. Given change by Wolfgang Birkenfeld. Writings of federal archives Bd. 14. Boppard 1966
• Bar dock, Avraham: The economic system of the national socialism. Ideology, theory, politics 1933 - 1945. Frankfurt/Main 1988.

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