In 1939 the German Imperial Office for Military-Economic Planning (Reichsamt für Wehrwirtschaftliche Planung) pub lished its first and only report on the official Census of Industrial Production of 1936. In 1936 the military budget amounted to 11 per cent of German GDP. We constructed an input-output table for 1936 drawing on the archival records of the industrial census. A comparison of the published ...