I tried a search but I failed, sorry.
Do you know good articles, books and similar works about German economy during world war 2?
In particular I'm interested in how the production process was organized, how the resources were allocated, which major problems were recognized and which solutions were implemented, and similar topics (mostly organizational topics).
I read several times that the German economy was on the edge and therefore not able to provide, for example, not enough equipment for the army even in safe time like 1942, when allied bombing was not so effective. I wonder why.
Or the German economy was strained and thus not able to develop an aircraft engine of 1500kw of power, needed for proper long range bombers with big payload. Etc.
Many thanks.
Two of the central books on the Third Reich's wartime economy are Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction and Richard Overy's War and Economy in the Third Reich. The latter is a series of essays by an established economic historian. Tooze's Wages is a doorstopper of a book and is one of the most systematic dissections of the Nazi economy. Tooze though is a bit too in love with his paradigms and sometimes overstates his arguments. A friendly rival/feind of both Tooze and Overy is Gotz Aly and his Hitler's Beneficiaries, which covers the social welfare aspects of the Nazi economy and its persistent attempts to maintain a balance of payments. Werner Abelshauser's chapter on Germany in The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison is also worth checking out as the book is geared for a comparative analysis of the major belligerents. Business and Industry in Nazi Germany edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener has a series of essays about the nature of the Third Reich's relationship to industry. For the late-war Luftwaffe's failed attempt to square production numbers and leading edge technology, Daniel Uziel's Arming the Luftwaffe is an excellent monograph about the pressures the aviation industry experienced during the war.
I have not finished reading through it yet but you might be interested in Wages of Destruction by Tooze. As I understand it though the book is at odds with some earlier work on the WW2 German economy, just a heads up to perhaps look at multiple viewpoints.