I: Introductory Remarks.- II: European Reconstruction — Dismantling of German Plants?.- A Morgenthau Doctrine and Marshall Plan.- B Dismantling or Economic Co-Operation?.- C Curtailing of Marshall Plan Quota as an Equivalent of a Dismantling Stop?.- D Benefits Arising from a Stop to Dismantling.- III: Ruhr Economy under the Influence of Dismantling.- A The Engineering, Economic, and Social Structure of the Ruhr District, a Compound System Reacting Sensitively to Arbitrary Interference.- B Brandies of Industry Listed for Dismantling.- C Steel Capacity and the Dismantling of Steel Works.- IV: Effects of Dismantlings on the Transportation and Building Trade.- A Railway Traffic.- B Building Trade.- V: Economic Claims at the Present Stage of Dismantling.