HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH
LECTURE 5:
The Nazi Polycracy & The Making of The Police State
KEY TERMS
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Trial of the Major War Criminals
International Military Tribunal, (Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946)
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 (Blue Series)
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Trials of the War Criminals
Nuremberg Military Tribunal (under Control Council Law No. 10)
(Nuremberg October 1946 - April 1949)
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1950 (Green Series)
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
Office of the United States Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 (Red Series)
Nuremberg Military Tribunal Charges 1. Crimes Against Peace
2. War Crimes
3. Crimes Against Humanity
4. Conspiracy to commit the above -
Fuhrer
and Reichs Chancellor
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Nazi Party functions on three levels:
2. Party Divisions;
3. Affiliated Associations.
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Fuhrer Chancellery (Kanzlei des Fuhrers – KdF)
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Philipp Bouhler (1899– 1945)
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Martin Bormann (1900 - 1945)
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Party Chancellery
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Reichsleiter
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"Golden Pheasants"
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Reichs Chancellery
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Reichsminister
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“polycracy” "polycratic authoritarianism" "chaotic authoritarianism"
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functionalists and the intentionalists
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runes
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904 – 1942)
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Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
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Hauptamt amt (amter)
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RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt)
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Reichsfuhrer-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei
(RFSSuChDtPol)
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Gestapo (Topography of Terror Foundation Website Link)
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Kripo
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Sipo
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Orpo
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WVHA
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Oswald Pohl
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Dachau KL
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Theodor Eicke (1892 - 1943)
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SS-TV (Totenkompfverbande) - "Death's Head Units"
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Allgemeine-SS
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Waffen-SS
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Helmut
Krausnick, Hans Buchheim, Martin Broszat, Hand Adolf Jacobsen, Anatomy of the
SS State (unabridged edition)
[classic book on the growth of concentration camps,
history of "protective custody", SS and Gestapo history]
George
H. Stein, The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War 1939-1945
[standard history of the military Waffen SS units]
Gerald Reitlinger, The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922 - 1945
Peter Padfield, Himmler
[biography]
George C. Browder, Foundations
of the Nazi Police State
[history of the Nazi security police system]
Ingo Muller, Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich
Reinhard Rurup (ed), Typography
of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reichssicherheitshauptam on the >>Prinz-Albrecht-Terrain<< A Documentation
[a history of RSHA and the Berlin
building it was headquartered in published by the Gestapo Headquarter Berlin
Museum ]
see their website as well:
http://www.topographie.de/en/
Michael Thad Allen, The
Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
[very recent book on the history of the WVHA]
Edouard Calic, Reinhard Heydrich
Robin Lumsden, The Black Corps: A Collector's Guide to The History and Regalia of the SS (New edition titled: A Collector's Guide to the Allgemeine-SS) [a guide to what the various SS symbols, decorations and insignia mean]
Robin Lumsden, The Allgemeine-SS (Osprey Men-at-Arms edition)
Gordon Williamson, The
Waffen-SS (Volumes 1-4), (Osprey Men-at-Arms editions)
[A division by division description of all 38 divisions and various foreign
legion units]
Heather Pringle, The
Master-Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
[New book just
published on the Ahnenerbe and SS archeological expeditions and SS "scholarship" -- in Chapters/Indigo now.]
Peter Hoffmann, Hitler's Personal Security: Protecting the Fuhrer, 1921-1945
Barbara Distel & Ruth
Jakusch, (eds) Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945
[Dachau Museum publication]
French Maclean, The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System
Cris Whetton, Hitler's
Fortune
[study of Hitler's personal assets]
HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH