De Totale Oorlog

Joseph Goebbels Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler als wir ihn uns bis heute überhaupt noch vorstellen können? Berliner Sportpalast, 18 februari 1943

Männer und Buben Das Volk steht auf, der Sturm bricht los. Wer legt noch die Hände feig in den Schoß? Theodor Körner

Stig Förster Roger Chickering

1990 John Ellis Brute Force. Allied strategy and tactics in the Second World War 1995 Richard Overy Why the Allies won

1915 Les guerres d’enfer Alphonse Séché

Georges Clémenceau NOVEMBER 1917 Nous nous présentons devant vous dans l'unique pensée d'une guerre intégrale. Droits du front et devoirs de l'arrière, qu'aujourd'hui tout soit donc confond. Que toute zone soit de l'armée.

Léon Daudet

1915 Londen 1916

1916 Hindenburg Programm

Obere Heeresleitung (OHL) -intern: Hindenburg Programm -Economie Gesetz über vaterländischen Hilfsdienst -Ideologie Leitsätzen für den Vaterländischen Unterricht unter den Truppen -extern: -Polen -onbeperkte duikbootoorlog -België -oorlogsdoelen Kohlrübenwinter

Leuven 1914

Erich Ludendorff : Der totale Krieg Ernst Jünger : Die totale Moblilmachung

Erich Ludendorff

Lazare Carnot : Levée en masse

Wilhelm Colmar von der Goltz Friedrich von Bernhardi : Das Volk in Waffen 1911: Deutschland und der nächste Krieg

Sociaal-darwinisme Nationalisme Friedrich Nietzsche Herbert Spencer Henri Louis Bergson Survival of the fittest Élan vital Victoire c’est la volonté Der Krieg und der Mut haben mehr grosse Dinge getan als die Nächstenliebe

T-35 T-26 (1931) Aleksandr Svechin Michael Tukhatsjevski

Philippe Pétain La bataille conduite Le feu tue André Maginot Instruction provisoire sur l'emploi tactique des grandes unités (1921) -Saving lives of infantry men -Firepower -Volk in Waffen / Nation en armes / Nation in Arms Marie Eugène Debeney

Totale oorlog Mobilisatie alle hulpbronnen Gericht op vernietiging van de vijand Ideologisch Gericht tegen economie en volk van vijand Onbegrensd geweld Mondiaal Lange duur

“The intention to kill large numbers of Japanese civilians was explicitly included in planning – documents read and approved at every level from the individual air-crewman to the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, and in his final report on how he conducted the Air War, the Commanding General of the USAAF included heavy Japanese civilian casualties as a measure of his success.” "It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers": The Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 Thomas R. Searle Journal of Military History 2002

Gerard de Groot The Bomb. A life. (2004) Curtis LeMay

Directive 22, 14 februari 1942 Dehousing paper, 30 maart 1942 Frederick Lindemann Viscount Cherwell Charles Portal

In 1938 over 22 million Germans lived in fifty-eight towns of over 100,000 inhabitants, which, with modern equipment, should be easy to find and hit. If even half the total load of 10,000 bombers were dropped on the built-up areas of these fifty-eight German towns the great majority of their inhabitants (about one-third of the German population) would be turned out of house and home. Investigation seems to show that having one's home demolished is most damaging to morale. People seem to mind it more than having their friends or even relatives killed. On the above figures we should be able to do ten times as much harm to each of the fifty-eight principal German towns. There seems little doubt that this would break the spirit of the people.

Harold L. George Air War Plans Division The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centers of population...has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman, and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity.... I am therefore addressing this urgent appeal to every Government which may be engaged in hostilities publicly to affirm its determination that its armed forces shall in no event, and under no circumstances, undertake the bombardment from the air of civilian populations. -Franklin D. Roosevelt