LEADER 03288ctm a2200433Ia 4500001 106552 005 20240621180853.0 008 050621s1999 xx a rbm 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm51006551 035 106552 049 LHMA 040 GZM |beng |erda |cGZM |dOCLCQ |dLHM 090 DD256.5 |b.S667 1999 100 1 Spring, Thomas E. |q(Thomas Eric) 245 14 The Nazi resettlement bureaucracy and the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia / |cby Thomas E. Spring. 264 0 |cc1999. 300 xv, 340 pages : |billustrations ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1999. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-340). 520 Much recent attention has been paid to the manner by which the Nazi administrative system performed its functions and to what extent it was bent to the Führer's will, crystallized in the dispute between "intentionalist" and "functionalist" interpretations. While these interpretations are valuable, the Nazi system also functioned by practices of bureaucratic behavior and policy that mirror administrative procedure common to all bureaucracies. A useful illustration of these procedures can be discovered by using the manner by which the resettlement bureaucracy of the Third Reich, both those Party, State, and SS agencies under the control of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, undertook the resettlement of the Baltic Germans from Estonia and Latvia and also the attempt by the German occupation authorities of Estonia and Latvia to implement racial selection policy in the Baltic States. What is revealed by an examination of the SS-led Einwandererzentralstelle (Resettler Central Office), and the attempt to implement the Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List) in occupied Estonia and Latvia are salient characteristics of the Nazi bureaucratic system which can be extended to an examination of bureaucracies in general. Furthermore, this examination also provides evidence of the growth of SS power in the Party and State systems of the Third Reich during the Second World War, most particularly the increasing influence of the secret and security police organs of the SS over the resettlement processes and procedures. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, MI : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 National socialism. 651 0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945. 650 0 Population transfers |xGermans |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Estonia |xHistory |yGerman occupation, 1941-1944. 651 0 Latvia |xHistory |yGerman occupation, 1941-1944. 655 7 Academic theses. |2lcgft 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=731838241&sid=9&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib106552/9956214.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hDD256.5 |i.S667 1999 852 |bwww 852 |bebook