focuses more on how the ultimate decision came about. It also looks at the central planning and how the events were brought about because of the role of central planning, changing environment and turmoil and the competing infrastructures of the Nazi governmental organizations. There were failed policies and decision making that played a role.
Hitler used three rudimentary tools to create and preserve his fascist state. The first was terror including the SS and Gestapo the second was legislation, propaganda and the public service. Hitler used all of these concurrently to achieve his ends and create a feeling of acceptability for his tyranny. This method permitted Hitler to validate his activities both to the world and to Germany's civil service, who were important to directing first the Nazi government and later to direct the Holocaust. Germany's trained civil servants and the court of law probably would have fought against a regime that lacked legal and constitutional legitimacy.
The first basic statute passed under the Enabling Act was the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service," promulgated on April 7, 1933, together with a statute that restricted …show more content…
One of the immediate effects of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was that civil servants throughout Germany became deeply involved in the highly bureaucratic process of determining who was or was not a Jew. The law contained the first official definition of a Jew, and genealogical and medical records had to be tracked down and verified for thousands of individuals, that is, for anyone suspected of being Jewish. These investigations led to the dismissals of thousands of Jews from civil service positions, to prohibitions from the practice of law and medicine, and to many other prohibitions and restrictions in all areas of political, social, and cultural affairs (Friedlander,
Hitler used three rudimentary tools to create and preserve his fascist state. The first was terror including the SS and Gestapo the second was legislation, propaganda and the public service. Hitler used all of these concurrently to achieve his ends and create a feeling of acceptability for his tyranny. This method permitted Hitler to validate his activities both to the world and to Germany's civil service, who were important to directing first the Nazi government and later to direct the Holocaust. Germany's trained civil servants and the court of law probably would have fought against a regime that lacked legal and constitutional legitimacy.
The first basic statute passed under the Enabling Act was the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service," promulgated on April 7, 1933, together with a statute that restricted …show more content…
One of the immediate effects of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was that civil servants throughout Germany became deeply involved in the highly bureaucratic process of determining who was or was not a Jew. The law contained the first official definition of a Jew, and genealogical and medical records had to be tracked down and verified for thousands of individuals, that is, for anyone suspected of being Jewish. These investigations led to the dismissals of thousands of Jews from civil service positions, to prohibitions from the practice of law and medicine, and to many other prohibitions and restrictions in all areas of political, social, and cultural affairs (Friedlander,