Experten im Sozialstaat

The Dark Side of Transnationalism Social Engineering and Nazism, 1930s–40s

“…The 'racial hygiene or eugenic explanatory model formed a bridge of understanding between bureaucracy and science'. 26 Social engineers were operating on familiar territory during the Third Reich. They capitalized on the increasing professionalization of demographers, spatial planners, ergonomists and community physicians since the nineteenth century, as well as on earlier interventions in policy and public administration.…”

“…As Lutz Raphael rightly emphasizes, there was an 'affinity between the perspectives of social engineering and biologistic patterns of interpretation'. 31 The technocrats committed to this point of view had gained particularly extensive influence in the economy and the military, social and health policy, and spatial and demographic policy. The Master Plan East is only the best-known and most extreme example of a development that regarded the racially 'purified' national body as an efficient machine, which it sought to realize above all on the supposed tabula rasa of the newly conquered eastern territories.…”

Chapter Ten: Rationalization of Nursing in West Germany and the United States, 1945–1970

“…According to Tilla Siegel this approach to action has become the generallya ccepted mode of thinking in the twentieth century ( Siegel, 2003). Experts in the humanities were granted the powertodefine the criteria of efficiency, in the same waythat knowledgethat could be rationally and scientifically justified was deemed superior to knowledgederived from experience (Raphael, 1996(Raphael, , 1998Szöllösi-Janze, 2004). From this perspective,processes of professionalization are asignificantpartofprocesses of rationalization.…”