ABSTRACT
THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST revolutionary wave that swept over States and Parties also penetrated the innumerable associations and Trades Unions into which German industrial life was organized independently of the administration. The associations of employers, of employed, and of independent workers were within a comparatively short time sequestrated by National Socialism, being in some cases destroyed and in others reconstituted. The prevailing ideology in Germany demanded that the capture of these heights should be considered as “permanent reconstruction.” Meanwhile there was no sign of any architectural plan. All that was visible was the process of co-ordination of all these organizations, which was, roughly speaking, carried out along three lines of attack-against the industrial associations, the Labour Unions, and the peasantry.
