Description:
In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, 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. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.
Brief description:
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).
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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