Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933-45

Buch | Hardcover

614 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789204582 (ISBN)

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The Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine.

Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime's labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced. This definitive volume provides, for the first time, a systematic study of the Reich Ministry of Labor and its implementation of National Socialist work doctrine. In detailed and illuminating chapters, contributors scrutinize political maneuvering, ministerial operations, relations between party and administration, and individual officials' actions to reveal the surprising extent to which administrative apparatuses were involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes.

Alexander Nutzenadel is Professor of Social and Economic History at the Humboldt University Berlin. He is the coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme "Experience and Expectation: Historical Foundations of Economic Behavior" and spokesman for the Independent Historians' Commission on the History of the Reich Labour Ministry during the National Socialist Era. His publications include Stunde der OEkonomen. Wissenschaft, Expertenkultur und Politik in der Bundesrepublik 1949-1974 (2005).

List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations

Preface
Rüdiger Hachtmann, Elizabeth Harvey, Sandrine Kott, Alexander Nützenadel, Kiran Klaus Patel and Michael Wildt

Introduction
Alexander Nützenadel

Part I: Administrative Structure, Personnel and Institutional Conflicts

Chapter 1. The Reich Ministry of Labour, 1919-1945: Organization, Leading Personnel and Political Room for Manoeuvre
Ulrike Schulz

Chapter 2. Mid-Level Civil Servants' Education, Professional Life and Career Structure
Lisa-Maria Röhling

Chapter 3. The Reich Ministry of Labour and the German Labour Front: Permanent Conflict and Informal Cooperation
Rüdiger Hachtmann

Part II: Policy Fields

Chapter 4. The Housing Policies of the Reich Ministry of Labour
Karl Christian Führer

Chapter 5. Pension Insurance Policy: The Impact of Labour Deployment and Discrimination
Alexander Klimo

Chapter 6. Labour Law in the Nazi State: The Labour Trustees and the Criminalization of Breaches of Employment Contract
Sören Eden

Chapter 7. The Labour Administration and the Organization of the War Economy
Henry Marx

Part III: Expansion, War and Crimes

Chapter 8. Social Policy. External Propaganda and Imperial Ambitions
Kiran Klaus Patel and Sandrine Kott

Chapter 9. Labour Administration and Manpower Recruitment in Occupied Europe: Belgium and the General Government
Elizabeth Harvey

Chapter 10. The General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment and the Reich Ministry of Labour
Swantje Greve

Chapter 11. Holocaust and Labour Administration: Jewish Labour Deployment in the Ghettos of the Occupied Eastern Territories
Michael Wildt

Part IV: The Ministry after 1945

Chapter 12. A Vanishing Act: The Reich Ministry of Labour and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949
Kim Christian Priemel

Chapter 13. New Beginning and Continuities: The Top Personnel of the Central German Labour Authorities, 1945-1960
Martin Münzel

Appendix I: Designations of Office
Appendix II: Biographies

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781789204582 / 9781789204582
Zustand	Neuware