Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction

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Walter de Gruyter, Jun 10, 2013 - Social Science - 486 pages
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Contents

1 Towards a new conceptualization of power
3
2 The historical setting of the National Socialist rise to power and its sociological implications
8
Part II Sociological Factors in the Development of the NS Party Bureaucracy
13
Part III The SS An Example of a Totalitarian Bureaucratic Institution
45
1 Origin and early history of the SS
47
2 Himmlers rise to power
53
3 The emergence of the SS as an independent system of power and the role of its subsystems
60
4 Promulgation and application of racial doctrines in the SS
71
11 The perception of God in the SS
104
12 Discussion and conclusion
120
A Process of Escalation into Destruction
129
1 Discussion
155
2 Conclusion
163
Part V Sociological Implications of Deviance and Accountability in NS Political and Bureaucratic Institutions
167
1 The sociological vision of Walther Rathenaus concept of social change
169
2 National Socialist aggression and psychoanalytic theory
185

5 Racial criteria for selection of personnel into the SS
74
6 Ideological criteria for selection indoctrination and training
77
7 Lebensborn Example of an NS social institution
79
8 Jewish and nonGerman descent in the SS
81
9 The conception of morality and honor in the Schutzstaffel
86
10 Consequences of Hitlers influence on NS ideology and the SS
93
Notes and References
201
Appendices
359
Bibliography
425
Index
445
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