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• Chapter 1 The political and constitutional preconditions of the Third Reich; Chapter 2 Modus-operandi and structure of the Hitler movement before 1933; Chapter 3 The monopoly of political power (1933); Chapter 4 The coordination of the Länder outside Prussia and the new problem of centralism and particularism; Chapter 5 The foundation and alteration of the social system; Chapter 6 Party and state in the early stages of the Third Reich; Chapter 7 The civil service and the administration; Chapter 8 The Reich government and the Führer’s authority in the first years after 1933; Chapter 9 Departmental polyocracy and the forms of Führer absolutism; Chapter 10 Law and justice; Chapter 11 Conclusion;