ABSTRACT
There was no sweeping away of the existing forms of government and replacement by the Nazi Party during the 'seizure of power'. The important offices of state in the Reich government down to the end of 1937 were held by Nazis. The erosion collective government under Hitler means that instead of a central body deliberating and formulating a relatively coherent and consistent set of policies, there was, below place of the Führer himself, a fragmentation and rival often conflicting agents of power, each agent finding justification only by recourse to implementation of the 'will of the Führer. Power relations in the Third Reich, it suggestively argued, were those of a latter-day feudal system, built upon personal loyalties rewarded by private fiefdoms. If the government reserved for the war years, process of development in earliest phase of the Third Reich. Expansion of Hitler's power was in good measure mirror reflection of the weakness of both the domestic and the international.
