Oil Production, 1940
Source |
Barrels per day |
Germany |
750 000 |
Austria |
850 000 |
Poland and Czechoslovakia |
550 000 |
Romania |
2 500 000 |
Hungary |
900 000 |
Synthetic oil |
4 250 000 |
Other |
1 000 000 |
Total |
10 800 000 |
Raw Material Consumption, 1942
German consumption of steel, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, tungsten, nickel, copper, zinc, tin, aluminum, rubber (excluding recycled rubber), oil, and coal, in thousand tons.
Raw Material |
Consumption |
Steel |
32 000.0 |
Chromium |
45.0 |
Manganese |
240.0 |
Molybdenum |
1.5 |
Tungsten |
2.5 |
Nickel |
4.5 |
Copper |
164.0 |
Zinc |
322.0 |
Tin |
1.0 |
Aluminum |
357.0 |
Rubber |
97.0 |
Oil |
6 500.0 |
Coal |
320 000.0 |
Raw Material Production, 1939-1944
German production of steel, aluminum, coal, and synthetic oil, from 1939 to 1944, in million tons.
Year |
Steel |
Aluminum |
Coal |
Synthetic Oil |
1939 |
23.7 |
0.199 |
204.8 |
2.2 |
1940 |
21.5 |
0.211 |
247.9 |
3.1 |
1941 |
31.8 |
0.234 |
248.3 |
4.1 |
1942 |
32.1 |
0.264 |
264.2 |
4.9 |
1943 |
34.6 |
0.250 |
268.9 |
5.7 |
1944 |
28.5 |
0.245 |
249.0 |
3.8 |
Sources
- Rohstoffverbrauch 1942 : Vergleich. 1943. 1 p. NARA T78 R146.
- DEIGHTON, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly : An Objective Look at World War II. New York, NY : Castle Books, 1999. 653 p. ISBN 0-7858-1114-1.