ABSTRACT
The author examines the interests and use of civil service policy in context of determinate political schemes for governmental reconstruction after 1933. It issues with a certain interpretation of Nazi regime which sees it broadly a conflict between a rational authoritarian bureaucracy, and an irrational totalitarian political movement -an interpretation which, it will be apparent, takes more or less at face value the image of bureaucracy as victim. The bureaucracy's commitment to a system of ordered rule is thus advanced as the underlying explanation of the entire process of the political distortion of the German state under the Nazis. The more obvious fact became, the less the National Socialist movement confined itself to reserving to itself politically important decisions, and the more it began to take on the functions of the civil state. The inner structure of the National Socialist state system cannot be grasped a power structure established once and securely based in an attachment to one particular form.
