ABSTRACT
The battles of Poland, France, the Balkans, and Russia have been object lessons in the techniques of "lightning war". In a sense, the objectives of the Nazi program for a "new order in Europe" are self-evident. Taproots for all the immensely elaborated organizational networks that characterize twentieth century Germany are found in Bismarck's imperial system. Under his capable hands, industrial capitalism underwent a sort of forced-draft growth within the confines of a modernized cameralism, in its turn greatly modified in many respects by important feudal carry-overs. The most important, by all odds, of these German business-coordinating, political pressure groups was the National Federation of German Industry, to which the present National Industry Group is the Nazified successor. It may be observed at the outset that the leitmotiv of the Nazi organizational plan is complete centralization of power to determine policy in all cases, with respect to all activities, and with regard to all phases or aspects of policy.
