Steve is absolutely correct. The idea that german economic records are a manufacture is just not supported by known facts.
We need to get some basic information on the economics of the war
Here is a good start
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/e...rison/public/ehr88postprint.pdf&embedded=true
There is an intersting table that looks at ammunition production that you might want to have a look at. I found the Table on page 2 of the paper intersting.
Other hard copy data relating to this subject can be found in a wide variety of sources. Westermanns "
Flak - German Anti-Aircraft Defences" is very extensive, but his set out of findings is poor. If you read the whole book you will get a good idea of his analysis. For example, however, in analysing the flak arms performance in the last quarter of 1942, the Westermann says the flak arm consumed 28% of the armed forces budget on ammunition expenditure (over 90% of which was expended in Germany itself), and a further 15% of the total budget for all services on new procurement. Thats a staggering 43% of German military receipts, just on flak alone. How much more was being spent on the air arm?. I dont exactly know, but to put it into some persepective, the Germans produced about 40000 AFVs with armament of 50mm or over, compared to close to 190000 a/c of all types. It might be a reasonable straw poll to say that the typical cost of an AFV was RM70 K, and an aircraft 30K (a Stug III cost RM50K, an 88mm Flak gun and carriage about RM15K, a Panther Tank somewhere between RM120K and RM170K. An Me 109 cost around RM25K. If my guesstimate is even half right, then the Germans were spent around RM280000000 on AFVs and RM570000000K on aircraft. Thats roughly 2 units of currency on aircraft, compared to 1 unit of currency on AFV production. And then we can look at the other big ticket items of production if you like, such as ammuntion expenditure and gun manufacture. The amounts spent on air defence are staggering.
Hayward also gives a pretty good incidental account of this issue in his "
Stopped At Stalingrad" which looks at the Lufwaffe operations and strategic issues in a great deal of detail. He puts LW allocations of the defence budget at arround 60% in 1942-3. Some of this expenditure was used at the front obviously, but it gives a bit of a snapshot of just how much the Germans were investing in air defences.
Saying that the figures are dodgy is your perogative, but you will then need to back it up with your own figures to make the claims that you are. Otherwise, demolishing, or attempting to demlish the veracity of the german figures is lacking its own credibility. You have no basis to discredit our positions, and none also to validate your own claims