Bureaucracy, Work and Violence: The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Edited by: Alexander Nützenadel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789204599

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Alexander Nützenadel 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 Ökonomen. Wissenschaft, Expertenkultur und Politik in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1974 (2005).

Reviews

Reviews for the German Edition:

“The results of this broad archival research venture are as impressive as they are innovative, especially since—unlike the thoroughly researched topic of Nazi state social and labor policy—the Reich Ministry of Labor comes into the spotlight for the first time.” • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“One reads with interest the descriptions of institutional affairs, housing, pension insurance, labor law, and developments after 1945. The strength of the study lies in its presentation of new results based on intensive archival work by scholarly collaborators.” • Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
FIGURES AND TABLES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
INTRODUCTION Alexander Nützenadel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 MID-LEVEL CIVIL SERVANTS’ EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND CAREER STRUCTURE Lisa-Maria Röhling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 3 THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND THE GERMAN LABOUR FRONT Permanent Conflict and Informal Cooperation Rüdiger Hachtmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
PART II POLICY FIELDS
Chapter 4 THE HOUSING POLICIES OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR Karl Christian Führer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 5 PENSION INSURANCE POLICY The Impact of Labour Deployment and Discrimination Alexander Klimo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chapter 6 LABOUR LAW IN THE NAZI STATE The Labour Trustees and the Criminalization of Breaches of Employment Contract Sören Eden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Chapter 7 THE LABOUR ADMINISTRATION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WAR ECONOMY Henry Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
PART III EXPANSION, WAR AND CRIMES
Chapter 8 SOCIAL POLICY External Propaganda and Imperial Ambitions Kiran Klaus Patel and Sandrine Kott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 9 LABOUR ADMINISTRATION AND MANPOWER RECRUITMENT IN OCCUPIED EUROPE Belgium and the General Government Elizabeth Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Chapter 10 THE GENERAL PLENIPOTENTIARY FOR LABOUR DEPLOYMENT AND THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR Swantje Greve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Chapter 11 HOLOCAUST AND LA BOUR ADMINISTRATION Jewish Labour Deployment in the Ghettos of the Occupied Eastern Territories Michael Wildt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Chapter 13 NEW BEGINNING AND CONTINUITIES The Top Personnel of the Central German Labour Authorities, 1945–1960 Martin Münzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Appendix I DESIGNATIONS OF OFFICE (IN ORDER OF SENIORITY) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Appendix II BIOGRAPHIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 530
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Genocide History

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Published: May 1, 2020
ISBN: 9781789204599