Die nationalsozialistische Machtergreifung

Bracher, Karl Dietrich; Sauer, Wolfgang; Schulz, Gerhard

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“…In essence Hitler demanded psychological war preparation, though the » view of the speech as an emphatic and expressive directive to prepare public opinion for an imminent war cannot be substantiated. To support this point by quoting Hitler as saying that the press ought to throw certain events into a perspective as a result of which the inner voice of the people would slowly ' begin' to scream for the use of force, 35 is a subtle distortion. The quotation taken in its actual context shows Hitler reviewing the events leading up to Munich.…”

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VI. Hitler and the Origins of the Second World War. Second Thoughts on the Status of Some of the Documents

Koch

1968

Hist. J.

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Ernst Nolte in his Die Epoche des Faschismus writes that Hitler undoubtedly in principle had wanted war ‘but hardly that war at that time’, meaning the war of 1939. This somewhat muddled thesis conceals two distinct issues, namely the argument that in 1939 contingencies were not entirely to Hitler's liking and the argument that in 1939 contingencies were so little to his liking that we must conclude that Hitler took no conscious steps to risk a general war.

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VI. Hitler and the Origins of the Second World War. Second Thoughts on the Status of Some of the Documents

Koch

1968

Hist. J.

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“…The first territories annexed by the 'Third Reich' were German in all but name, the Saarland being repatriated in 1935 after 15 years under a League of Nations mandate. 37 It was here that the first elements of the Interior Ministry's plan came to fruition, even if Josef Bürckel, the Regional Nazi Party Leader appointed to oversee the Saarland's annexation, was the principle driving force on the ground. 38 The Saarland was not incorporated into any of Germany's pre-existing regional administrative structuressuch as Bavaria or Prussiawhich would have meant, for example, subordinating its justice and finance administrations to the Reich Justice and Finance Ministries respectively.…”

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Nazi Constitutional Designs: The State Secretaries’ Meetings and the Annexation of East Central Europe

O’Byrne

2024

European History Quarterly

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This article examines the state secretaries’ meetings as an instrument of government in Nazi Germany. They are mostly known as the forum at which the infamous Wannsee Conference took place, but here the 20 January 1942 meeting will be situated in a context previously ignored by historians by showing that such gatherings were an increasingly regular occurrence during the ‘Third Reich’, and that a range of policy issues were discussed there – not just mass murder. As such, it will shed new light on how the ‘Hitler state’ functioned at this level by showing that Wannsee was not entirely extraordinary, the format having become established practice long before 1942. Similarly, the article will also show that the jurisdictional conflicts that played out at Wannsee were equally common, with participants generally jockeying for influence and advancing claims to departmental authority. Indeed, although they effectively replaced cabinet meetings, which were formally banned by Hitler in 1938, the state secretaries’ meetings did little to salvage collegial government. To illustrate this, a series of meetings called to coordinate the government's response to a particular issue will be examined – the annexation of ‘Greater German’ territories in Austria, the Sudetenland and Poland. As will be shown throughout, very little was achieved by way of coordination, with the state secretaries only advancing those constitutional designs that served their ministries’ claims to power.

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1978

Elections Without Choice

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Die nationalsozialistische Machtergreifung

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VI. Hitler and the Origins of the Second World War. Second Thoughts on the Status of Some of the Documents

VI. Hitler and the Origins of the Second World War. Second Thoughts on the Status of Some of the Documents

Nazi Constitutional Designs: The State Secretaries’ Meetings and the Annexation of East Central Europe

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