Behemoth : the structure and practice of national socialism, 1933-1944 / Franz Neumann ; with an introduction by Peter Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Franz L. (Franz Leopold), 1900-1954

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (680 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2009.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the war to political psychology. But his contributions in Behemoth were groundbreaking: that the Nazi organization of society involved the collapse of traditional i

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Introduction; Preface; Table of 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 Life4: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 Charisma1: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 ReichVI: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 Republic2: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; Aryanizations; Germanization

Technological Changes and Monopolization

Notes:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"--T.p

Originally published in 1942.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-40905-2

1-283-87563-2

1-61578-012-2

OCLC:

825768343