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(41,040 posts)Their efficiency will be mass impoverishment for the rest of us. This government will end up like Hitler's.
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"...Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy.
Officials were expected to "work towards the Führer" to take the initiative in promoting policies and actions in line with his wishes and the goals of the Nazi Party, without Hitler having to be involved in the day-to-day running of the country.[9]
He often deferred making decisions, avoided clear delegation and allowed subordinates to compete with one another, especially in the pre-war years.
The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but rather a disorganised collection of factions led by members of the party elite who struggled to amass power and gain the Führer's favour.[10]
The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler's speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann.[11]
He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.[12]
Hitler's cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.[13]
Hitler's leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have "the stronger one [do] the job".[14]
In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.[15]
The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler's ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels' effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader.[16]
Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany's states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Nazi_Germany
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