A Terrible Efficiency Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holoc
This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in th
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Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
A Terrible Efficiency
Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
A Terrible Efficiency Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust
Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. Center for Economic Education Columbus State University Columbus, GA, USA
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Preface
As I pen this portion of the book, it is June 6, 2019, 75 years to the day that Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and began what U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower called a “Great Crusade” to free Europe from the shackles of Nazi Germany. Only months later would surviving members of these initial forces discover elements of the true horrors of the Nazi bureaucracy, as the westernmost concentration and death camps were liberated. These liberations, and the evidentiary documentation, marked the beginning of what would become a vast record of atrocities committed by those occupying all rungs of the Nazi apparatus that would be known to the world as the Nazi Holocaust. Shortly after the war in Europe was concluded in May 1945, Allied governments began preparing for the trials of those Nazi officials who were charged with, among other crimes, crimes against humanity. Fittingly, some of these trials took place in Nuremburg, which was viewed as the spiritual center of Nazi ideology. The testimony and other evidence presented in these trials revealed that most of those charg
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