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- ISBN 9781836950660
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
