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German Administrative History and Traditions 1933–1945

1. The Structure of Public Administration

1.1 Forms of organisation

Over the course of the 19th century, the principle of collective responsibility, which had governed German authorities and local government since the early modern period, was increasingly pushed back. This principle, also referred to as the principle of collegiality or Kollegialprinzip in German, meant that decisions were made by groups of officials on the same level of authority. By the time the Nazis came to power, the only sector where this principle was still in place was the judiciary, and this has remained true until today. It was replaced by a monocratic form of organisation, where the final responsibility for all decisions made lays exclusively with one person at the top of the organisational hierarchy. This is why, for example, documents from the Reich Ministry of Finance were usually headed and signed “Der Reichminister der Finanzen” (The Reich Finance Minister) and not “Das Reichsfinanzministerium” (The Reich Ministry of Fina

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Hitler's Noxious Plan to 'Restructure' Berlin

Transforming the Berlin Hitler loathed into a new world capital called “Germania” demanded the destruction of the urban core, eviction of its Jewish residents, recruitment of forced labor — and enrollment of the city’s infrastructure.

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On June 12, 1933, the supervisory board of Berlin’s electricity utility, Bewag, met fully for the first time since the Nazis had come to power four months earlier. It was always going to be a tense event. The supervisory board comprised not only municipal officers from Berlin and representatives of Prussian and Reich power utilities, but also delegates of leading international banks holding shares in the utility. Some of these bankers — as city officials had been keen to highlight in advance of the meeting — were Jews.

The meeting began innocuously enough with presentations by Bewag’s two directors, Johannes Adolph and Martin Rehmer, on the historical development of electricity in Berlin and the city’s power generation a

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Germania (city)

World capital city planned by Adolf Hitler

For other uses, see Germania (disambiguation).

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Welthauptstadt Germania (pronounced[ˈvɛltˌhaʊ̯ptʃtatɡɛʁˈmaːni̯a]), or World Capital Germania, was the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin during the Nazi period, as part of Adolf Hitler's vision for the future of Nazi Germany after the planned victory in World War II. It was to be the capital of his planned "Greater Germanic Reich". Albert Speer, the "first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realised between the years 1938 and 1943.

Some of the projects were completed, such as the creation of a great East–West city axis, which included broadening Charlottenburger Chaussee (today Straße des 17. Juni) and placing the Berlin Victory Column in the centre, far away from the Reichstag, where it originally stood. Other projects, however, suc