The German-American Community during World War II

The Strategic Bombing of German Cities during World War II and its Impact on City Growth

We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during WWII as our example of such a shock. The goal of this paper is to analyze the impact of this shock on German city-growth and the resulti...

Industrial mobilisation for World War II: a German comparison*

In World War II, the Soviet mobilisation of industry appears to have been more successful than the German. Yet in terms of prewar resources and ex ante mobilisation potential there is no obvious reason why this should have been the case. In production, resources, and mobilisation preparations there were many similarities. The obvious differences were mostly to the Soviet disadvantage. Yet the S...

BIBLIOGRAPHY 293 Law during World War II " (

In this doctoral thesis (Amsterdam, 1990), parts of which were published before as articles, it is argued "that far more facts about revolutions and collective violence exist on file than we can cogently explain, and that this predicament owes to fallacies of concept, theory, and method namely, essentialism in defining 'revolution', reliance on the volcanic model to explain it, and resort to 'i...

[Controlling occupational diseases during the years of World War II].

RENAL INJURIES IN MASHHAD UNIVERSITY DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. A COMPARISON WITH WORLD WARS I AND II, AND VIETNAM

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...