The Dual State: Top Nazi Leaders Who Worked Toward the Fuehrer

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The Dual State Top Nazi Leaders Who Worked
Toward the Fuehrer
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Who competed for administrative access to Hitler
in Berlin? Martin Bormann (Director, Staff of
the Deputy Fuehrer),
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Phillip Bouhler (Head, Chancellery of the
Fuehrer),
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Rudolf Hess (Deputy Fuehrer),
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Otto Meissner (Head of the Presidial Chancellery),
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and Hans Heinrich Lammers (Head of the Reich
Chancellery).
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Who vied for control of the police? Wilhelm
Frick (Reich Minister of the Interior),
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Heinrich Himmler (S.S. Reichsfuehrer and Head of
German Police),
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and Hermann Goering (in command of Prussian
police).
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Who fought for control of economic policy?
Hermann Goering (Director, Four Year Plan),
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Hjalmar Schacht (Reich Economics Minister),
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Walther Funk (Economics Minister after 1937 and a
personal advisor to Hitler on economic
questions),
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and Himmler, who vied with Goering on economic
questions related to S.S. plundering in eastern
Europe.
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Also competing for Hitlers approval on economic
policy were Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
(Minister of Finance), Fritz Reinhardt (Nazi
expert on financial questions), and Wilhelm
Keppler (who served as a personal economics
advisor to Hitler). No photos of these three are
available.
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Who battled for control of policy in occupied
Poland after September 1939? Albert Forster
(overlord of Danzig/West Prussia),
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Arthur Greiser (ruler in the Warthegau, who had
the support of Himmler for his harsh ethnic
policies there),
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and Hans Frank (who ran the Generalgouvernement
and was supported by Goering at the highest
levels of the Nazi leadership).
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Who vied for dominance in matters of law and
justice? Franz Guertner (Reich Minister of
Justice)
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and Hans Frank (Nazi legal expert). Himmler,
Goering, and Hess also took a careful interest in
legal issues.
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Who vied for control of Nazi education policy?
Bernhard Rust (Reich Minister of Education),
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Baldur von Schirach (Reich Youth Leader),
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Alfred Rosenberg (Representative of the Fuehrer
for the Supervision of the Entire Intellectual
and Ideological Schooling and Education of the
Nazi Party),
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Julius Streicher (head of the anti-Semitic
publishing house, Der Stuermer),
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Robert Ley (head of the Adolf Hitler elite
schools),
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and Phillip Bouhler (chief Nazi schoolbook
censor).
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Who fought for control of labor policy? Franz
Seldte (Minister of Labor, shown below),
Konstantin Hierl (head of the Reich Labor
Service, no photo available),
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and Robert Ley (leader of the German Labor Front,
D.A.F.).
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Who competed over Nazi foreign policy?
Konstantin von Neurath (Reich Minister of Foreign
Affairs),
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Joachim von Ribbentrop (Nazi expert on foreign
affairs and Foreign Minister from 1938),
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and Alfred Rosenberg (head of Hitlers Foreign
Political Office).
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Who battled for domination of the press and
propaganda? Josef Goebbels (Reich Minister of
Propaganda),
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Otto Dietrich (Nazi press chief and in charge of
publicity),
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Nazi Press Director, Max Amann,
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Alfred Rosenberg (Editor of the party newspaper,
the Voelkischer Beobachter),
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and Julius Streicher (publisher of Der
Stuermer).
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Who carried out the regimes anti-Semitic
policies? All of the foregoing and many others,
but those below had a specific interest in a
radical solution to the Jewish Question
Greiser
Goering
Streicher
Himmler
Goebbels
Frank
Heydrich
Rosenberg
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Which leaders vied for control of military
policy? Ernst Roehm (commander of the private
Nazi army, the Sturmabteilung, or S.A., until his
assassination in 1934),
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Heinrich Himmler, overlord of the Waffen S.S.
(armed S.S.),
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Hermann Goering, chief of the Luftwaffe (air
force),
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Werner von Blomberg (Minister of War until 1938),
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Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (head of the army
high command until 1938),
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and Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Oberkommando der
Wehrmacht (Supreme High Command) after 1938.
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Other influential advisors include Albert Speer
(Hitlers architect and Armaments Minister)
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and Heinrich Hoffmann (Hitlers photographer and
close confidante).