Bureaucracy, Work and Violence : : The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 / / ed. by Alexander Nützenadel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Eden, Sören,; Führer, Karl Christian,; Greve, Swantje,; Hachtmann, Rüdiger,; Harvey, Elizabeth,; Klimo, Alexander,; Kott, Sandrine,; Marx, Henry,; Münzel, Martin,; Nützenadel, Alexander,; Patel, Kiran Klaus,; Priemel, Kim Christian,; Röhling, Lisa-Maria,; Schulz, Ulrike,; Wildt, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Nützenadel, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 -- Chapter 2 MID-LEVEL CIVIL SERVANTS’ EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND CAREER STRUCTURE -- Chapter 3 THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND THE GERMAN LABOUR FRONT Permanent Conflict and Informal Cooperation -- PART II POLICY FIELDS -- Chapter 4 THE HOUSING POLICIES OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR -- Chapter 5 PENSION INSURANCE POLICY The Impact of Labour Deployment and Discrimination -- Chapter 6 LABOUR LAW IN THE NAZI STATE The Labour Trustees and the Criminalization of Breaches of Employment Contract -- Chapter 7 THE LABOUR ADMINISTRATION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WAR ECONOMY -- PART III EXPANSION, WAR AND CRIMES -- Chapter 8 SOCIAL POLICY External Propaganda and Imperial Ambitions -- Chapter 9 LABOUR ADMINISTRATION AND MANPOWER RECRUITMENT IN OCCUPIED EUROPE Belgium and the General Government -- Chapter 10 THE GENERAL PLENIPOTENTIARY FOR LABOUR DEPLOYMENT AND THE REICH MINISTRY OF LABOUR -- Chapter 11 HOLOCAUST AND LA BOUR ADMINISTRATION Jewish Labour Deployment in the Ghettos of the Occupied Eastern Territories -- PART IV THE MINISTRY AFTER 1945 -- Chapter 12 A VANISHING ACT The Reich Ministry of Labour and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945–1949 -- Chapter 13 NEW BEGINNING AND CONTINUITIES The Top Personnel of the Central German Labour Authorities, 1945–1960 -- Appendix I DESIGNATIONS OF OFFICE (IN ORDER OF SENIORITY) -- Appendix II BIOGRAPHIES -- INDEX