I recently submitted my PhD thesis, which focuses on the bureaucratic rule of the Nazi regime and the organisation of the war economy. With the example of the labour administration, I argue that the German state had to generate intensive knowledge about the German labour force and more general about the economic production process. The amount of knowledge needed intensified the more the Nazi regime suspended market mechanism that would have otherwise organized the distribution of workers and raw materials. Drawing on both organizational theory and the sociology of knowledge, I conclude that the decisive role of the state´s public administration in stablizing the Nazi regeime has so far been overlooked due to older approaches, such as the polycracy hypothesis or the hypothesis of a new form of statehood (Neue Staatlichkeit). Address: Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany
The publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the P... more The publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the National Socialist rule. The collection, therefore, strives to overcome the limits of current historical research. Instead of the present emphasis on "social demagogy" when conceptualizing a social policy whose goal was to maximize the exploitation of the Protectorate´s human resources to the advantage of Germany´s military objectives, the collection´s concept confronts this one-sided (but not incorrect) perspective, which demonstrates the long-term continuities of wartime social policy with the previous era (before the year 1938) and the subsequent period of people´s democracy after the year 1945. The studies within the collection represent an empirical approach towards gleaning factual data on the individual social policies (insurance, housing policy, labour regulation, etc.).
The publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the P... more The publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the National Socialist rule. The collection, therefore, strives to overcome the limits of current historical research. Instead of the present emphasis on "social demagogy" when conceptualizing a social policy whose goal was to maximize the exploitation of the Protectorate´s human resources to the advantage of Germany´s military objectives, the collection´s concept confronts this one-sided (but not incorrect) perspective, which demonstrates the long-term continuities of wartime social policy with the previous era (before the year 1938) and the subsequent period of people´s democracy after the year 1945. The studies within the collection represent an empirical approach towards gleaning factual data on the individual social policies (insurance, housing policy, labour regulation, etc.).
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