Bureaucracy, Work and Violence - The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 19331945

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Nutzenadel Nutzenadel
• Assisted by: Alexander Nützenadel (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9781836950660
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-066-0
• No. of pages: 530
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, History: 20th Century to Present, Genocide History