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Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Introduction Preface Contents Introduction

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

1. The Empire 2. The Structure of the Weimar Democracy 3. The Social Forces 4. The Decline of Organized Labor 5. The Counter-Revolution 6. The Collapse of the Democracy 7. A Tentative Summary

Part One The Political Pattern of National Socialism

Introductory Remarks on the Value of National Socialist Ideology I. The Totalitarian State

1. The Techniques of Anti-Democratic Constitutional Thought 2. The Totalitarian State 3. The Synchronization of Political Life 4. The Totalitarian State in the War

II. The Revolt of the Party and the ‘Movement’ State

1. The Ideological Protest against the Totalitarian State 2. The Tripartite State 3. The Party and the State 4. The S.S. and the Hitler Youth 5. The Party and the Other Services 6. Party and State in Italy 7. The Rational Bureaucracy 8. The Party as a Machine

III. The Charismatic Leader in the Leadership State

1. The Constitutional Function of the Leader 2. Luther and Calvin 3. The Thaumaturgic Kings 4. The Psychology of Charisma

IV. The Racial People, the Source of Charisma

1. Nation and Race 2. Racism in Germany 3. Anti-Semitic Theories 4. Blood Purification and Anti-Jewish Legislation 5. Aryanization of Jewish Property 6. The Philosophy of Anti-Semitism

V. The Grossdeutsche Reich (Living Space and the Germanic Monroe Doctrine)

1. The Medieval Heritage 2. Geopolitics 3. Population Pressure 4. The New International Law

The Breaking of the Fetters of Versailles The New Neutrality and the Just War The Germanic Monroe Doctrine The Folk Group versus Minority Folk International Law and State Sovereignty

5. The Scope and Character of the Grossdeutsche Reich

VI. The Theory of Racial Imperialism

1. Democracy and Imperialism 2. The Proletarian Folk against Plutocracies 3. Pseudo-Marxist Elements in the Social Imperialist Theory 4. Nationalist Forerunners of Social Imperialism 5. German Imperialism 6. The Social Democrats and Imperialism 7. Racial Imperialism and the Masses

Part Two Totalitarian Monopolistic Economy

I. An Economy without Economics?

1. State Capitalism? 2. A National Socialist Economic Theory: The Myth of the Corporate State

II. The Organization of Business

1. The Political Status of Business in the Weimar Republic 2. The Political Organization of Business under National Socialism

The Groups The Chambers The Executive Machinery of the State Machinery of Rationalization Control of Raw Materials Summary

III. The Monopolistic Economy

1. Property and Contract (Economics and Politics) 2. The Cartel Policy of National Socialism

The Brüning Dictatorship and the Cartel The Purge of the Chiseler Compulsory Cartellization Preparedness, War, and Cartels Cartels and Groups

3. The Growth of Monopolies

Aryanization Germanization Technological Changes and Monopolization The Financing of the New Industries The Elimination of Small Business The Corporation Structure Who Are the Monopolists?

IV. The Command Economy

1. The Nationalized Sector 2. The Party Sector (The Göring Combine) 3. Price Control and the Market 4. Profits, Investments, and ‘the End of Finance Capitalism’ 5. Foreign Trade, Autarky, and Imperialism 6. The Control of Labor

The Utilization of Man-Power Fight for Higher Productivity

7. Conclusion

Efficiency Profit Motive Structure The Failure of Democratic Planning

Part Three The New Society

I. The Ruling Class

1. The Ministerial Bureaucracy 2. The Party Hierarchy 3. The Civil Services and the Party 4. The Armed Forces and the Party 5. The Industrial Leadership 6. The Agrarian Leadership 7. The Continental Oil Corporation as a Model for the New Ruling Class 8. The Renewal of the Ruling Class

II. The Ruled Classes

1. National Socialist Principles of Organization 2. The Working Class under the Weimar Democracy 3. The Labor Front 4. The Labor Law

Plant Community and Plant Leader The Plant The Honor of Labor and the Labor Courts

5. The Regimentation of Leisure 6. Wages and Incomes as Means of Mass Domination 7. Propaganda and Violence 8. National Socialist Law and Terror

Behemoth

1. Has Germany a Political Theory? 2. Is Germany a State? 3. What Are the Developmental Trends in this Structure?

Notes Appendix

Part One The Political Pattern of National Socialism

I. The Totalitarian State in the War

1. The National Leadership 2. The Formation of the Political Will 3. Inspector Generals, Commissioners, and the Cabinet 4. The Interior Ministry 5. The Regional Organization of the Reich 6. Unification, the Encroachment of the Gau, and National Defense Commissars

II. The Party as a Machine

1. The Reich Leaders 2. Prominent Nazis in the Government 3. The Gauleiter 4. The Party Outside Germany

The Foreign Organization The Party in Occupied Europe

5. The Party Membership

III. The Rise of Himmler. The Police and S.S.

1. The Police

The Order Police The Security Police and the Security Service

2. The S.S.

IV. Anti-Semitism V. The Scope and Character of the Grossdeutsche Reich

1. Types of Territory under German Control—Survey 2. The Nazi Theory of Military Government 3. The Administrative Control of the Occupied Territories

The Reich Ministry of the Interior as the Co-ordinating Agency Annexed and Incorporated Territories Territories in the Process of Annexation and Incorporation Appended Territories Occupied Territories

4. The Exploitation of Occupied Europe

Political Controls Economic Controls

5. In Search of Co-operation with Occupied Europe

Part Two Totalitarian Monopolistic Economy

Introduction

The Reorganization of 1942 and the Edict of 2 September 1943

I. Control Institutions

1. The Central Economic Controls and the Ministry for Armaments and War Production

Planning Offices The Ministry for Armaments and War Production

2. The War Economy and Armament Office of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces 3. The Four Year Plan Office 4. Commissioners Directly Responsible to Hitler 5. The Ministry of Economics 6. The Ministry for Food and Agriculture 7. Transportation, Power, and Building Controls 8. The Self-government of Industry 9. Cartels 10. Reichsvereinigungen

II. Methods of Control

1. Raw-Material Control 2. Price and Profit Control

III. Concentration of Capital

1. Rationalization 2. The Comb-out 3. Combines and Corporations

IV. Labor Controls

1. The Supreme Control Agencies 2. Labor Exchanges and Trustees of Labor 3. The Labor Chambers of the German Labor Front 4. Foreign Labor

Part Three The New Society

1. Social Stratification according to the Census of 1939 2. The Middle Classes 3. The Civil Service 4. The Judiciary 5. The Ruling Class

Index

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