Alexander Nützenadel is Professor of Social and Economic History at the Humboldt University Berlin. He is the coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme “Experience and Expectation: Historical Foundations of Economic Behavior” and spokesman for the Independent Historians’ Commission on the History of the Reich Labour Ministry during the National Socialist Era. His publications include Stunde der Ökonomen. Wissenschaft, Expertenkultur und Politik in der Bundesrepublik 1949–1974 (2005).

Reviews for the German Edition:“The results of this broad archival research venture are as impressive as they are innovative, especially since—unlike the thoroughly researched topic of Nazi state social and labor policy—the Reich Ministry of Labor comes into the spotlight for the first time.” • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“One reads with interest the descriptions of institutional affairs, housing, pension insurance, labor law, and developments after 1945. The strength of the study lies in its presentation of new results based on intensive archival work by scholarly collaborators.” • Süddeutsche Zeitung

• List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsPrefaceRüdiger Hachtmann, Elizabeth Harvey, Sandrine Kott, Alexander Nützenadel, Kiran Klaus Patel and Michael WildtIntroductionAlexander NützenadelPart I: Administrative Structure, Personnel and Institutional ConflictsChapter 1. The Reich Ministry of Labour, 1919–1945: Organization, Leading Personnel and Political Room for ManoeuvreUlrike SchulzChapter 2. Mid-Level Civil Servants’ Education, Professional Life and Career StructureLisa-Maria RöhlingChapter 3. The Reich Ministry of Labour and the German Labour Front: Permanent Conflict and Informal CooperationRüdiger HachtmannPart II: Policy FieldsChapter 4. The Housing Policies of the Reich Ministry of LabourKarl Christian FührerChapter 5. Pension Insurance Policy: The Impact of Labour Deployment and DiscriminationAlexander KlimoChapter 6. Labour Law in the Nazi State: The Labour Trustees and the Criminalization of Breaches of Employment ContractSören EdenChapter 7. The Labour Administration and the Organization of the War EconomyHenry MarxPart III: Expansion, War and CrimesChapter 8. Social Policy. External Propaganda and Imperial AmbitionsKiran Klaus Patel and Sandrine KottChapter 9. Labour Administration and Manpower Recruitment in Occupied Europe: Belgium and the General GovernmentElizabeth HarveyChapter 10. The General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment and the Reich Ministry of LabourSwantje GreveChapter 11. Holocaust and Labour Administration: Jewish Labour Deployment in the Ghettos of the Occupied Eastern TerritoriesMichael WildtPart IV: The Ministry after 1945Chapter 12. A Vanishing Act: The Reich Ministry of Labour and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945–1949Kim Christian PriemelChapter 13. New Beginning and Continuities: The Top Personnel of the Central German Labour Authorities, 1945–1960Martin MünzelAppendix I: Designations of OfficeAppendix II: BiographiesIndex