List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Rudiger Hachtmann, Elizabeth Harvey, Sandrine Kott, Alexander Nutzenadel, Kiran Klaus Patel and Michael Wildt
Introduction
Alexander Nutzenadel
Part I: Administrative Structure, Personnel and Institutional Conflicts
Chapter 1. The Reich Ministry of Labour, 1919-1945: Organization, Leading Personnel and Political Room for Manoeuvre
Ulrike Schulz
Chapter 2. Mid-Level Civil Servants' Education, Professional Life and Career Structure
Lisa-Maria Rohling
Chapter 3. The Reich Ministry of Labour and the German Labour Front: Permanent Conflict and Informal Cooperation
Rudiger Hachtmann
Part II: Policy Fields
Chapter 4. The Housing Policies of the Reich Ministry of Labour
Karl Christian Fuhrer
Chapter 5. Pension Insurance Policy: The Impact of Labour Deployment and Discrimination
Alexander Klimo
Chapter 6. Labour Law in the Nazi State: The Labour Trustees and the Criminalization of Breaches of Employment Contract
Soren Eden
Chapter 7. The Labour Administration and the Organization of the War Economy
Henry Marx
Part III: Expansion, War and Crimes
Chapter 8. Social Policy. External Propaganda and Imperial Ambitions
Kiran Klaus Patel and Sandrine Kott
Chapter 9. Labour Administration and Manpower Recruitment in Occupied Europe: Belgium and the General Government
Elizabeth Harvey
Chapter 10. The General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment and the Reich Ministry of Labour
Swantje Greve
Chapter 11. Holocaust and Labour Administration: Jewish Labour Deployment in the Ghettos of the Occupied Eastern Territories
Michael Wildt
Part IV: The Ministry after 1945
Chapter 12. A Vanishing Act: The Reich Ministry of Labour and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949
Kim Christian Priemel
Chapter 13. New Beginning and Continuities: The Top Personnel of the Central German Labour Authorities, 1945-1960
Martin Munzel
Appendix I: Designations of Office
Appendix II: Biographies
Index
