Overview

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.

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Author:   Alexander Nützenadel ,  Alex Skinner
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789204582

ISBN 10:   1789204585
Pages:   530
Publication Date:   01 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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. - Suddeutsche Zeitung

Author 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).

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