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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Reviews for the German Edition:
The results of this broad archival research venture are as impressive as they are innovative, especially sinceunlike the thoroughly researched topic of Nazi state social and labor policythe 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
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, 19191945: 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, 19451949
Kim Christian Priemel
Chapter
13. New Beginning and Continuities: The Top Personnel of the Central
German Labour Authorities, 19451960
Martin Münzel
Appendix I: Designations of Office
Appendix II: Biographies
Index
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 19491974 (2005).
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