Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
English-language Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78920-458-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 530 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 910 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nützenadel, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nützenadel, Alexander
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).