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The ³Dual State:´ Top Nazi Leaders Who

Worked ³Toward the Fuehrer´

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Who competed for administrative access to Hitler in Berlin?

Martin Bormann (Director, Staff of the Deputy Fuehrer),

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Phillip Bouhler (Head, Chancellery of the Fuehrer),

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R udolf Hess (Deputy Fuehrer),

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Otto Meissner (Head of the Presidial Chancellery),

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and Hans Heinrich Lammers (Head of the R eich

Chancellery).

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Who vied for control of the police? Wilhelm Frick (R eich

Minister of the Interior),

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Heinrich Himmler (S.S. R eichsfuehrer and Head of German

Police),

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and Hermann Goering (in command of Prussian police).

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Who fought for control of economic policy? Hermann

Goering (Director, Four Year Plan),

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Hjalmar Schacht (R eich Economics Minister),

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Walther Funk (Economics Minister after 1937 and a personal

advisor to Hitler on economic questions),

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and Himmler, who vied with Goering on economic questions

related to S.S. plundering in eastern Europe.

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Also competing for Hitler¶s approval on economic

 policy were Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk 

(Minister of Finance), Fritz R einhardt (Nazi expert

on financial questions), and Wilhelm Keppler (who

served as a personal economics advisor to Hitler).

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Who battled for control of policy in occupied Poland after 

September 1939? Albert Forster (overlord of Danzig/West

Prussia),

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Arthur Greiser (ruler in the Warthegau, who had the support

of Himmler for his harsh ethnic policies there),

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and Hans Frank (who ran the Generalgouvernement and was

supported by Goering at the highest levels of the Nazi

leadership).

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Who vied for dominance in matters of law and justice?

Franz Guertner (R eich Minister of Justice)

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and Hans Frank (Nazi legal expert). Himmler, Goering, and

Hess also took a careful interest in legal issues.

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Who vied for control of Nazi education policy?

Bernhard R ust (R eich Minister of Education),

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Baldur von Schirach (R eich Youth Leader),

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Alfred R osenberg (R epresentative of the Fuehrer for the

Supervision of the Entire Intellectual and Ideological

Schooling and Education of the Nazi Party),

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Julius Streicher (head of the anti-Semitic publishing house,

³Der Stuermer´),

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Who fought for control of labor policy? Franz Seldte

(Minister of Labor, shown below), Konstantin Hierl (head of 

the R eich Labor Service, no photo available),

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and R obert Ley (leader of the German Labor Front, D.A.F.).

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Who competed over Nazi foreign policy? Konstantin von

 Neurath (R eich Minister of Foreign Affairs),

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Joachim von R ibbentrop (Nazi expert on foreign affairs and

Foreign Minister from 1938),

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and Alfred R osenberg (head of Hitler¶s Foreign Political

Office).

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Who battled for domination of the press and propaganda?

Josef Goebbels (R eich Minister of Propaganda),

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Otto Dietrich (Nazi press chief and in charge of publicity),

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 Nazi Press Director, Max Amann,

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Alfred R osenberg (Editor of the party newspaper, the

³Voelkischer Beobachter´),

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and Julius Streicher (publisher of ³Der Stuermer´).

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Who carried out the regime¶s anti-Semitic policies? All of 

the foregoing and many others, but those below had a specific

interest in a radical solution to the ³Jewish Question:´

Goering

Himmler 

Goebbels

Streicher 

Frank 

Greiser 

R osenberg

Heydrich

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Which leaders vied for control of military policy? Ernst

R oehm (commander of the private Nazi army, the

Sturmabteilung , or S.A., until his assassination in 1934),

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Heinrich Himmler, overlord of the Waffen S.S. (armed S.S.),

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Hermann Goering, chief of the Luftwaffe (air force),

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Werner von Blomberg (Minister of War until 1938),

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Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (head of the army high command

until 1938),

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and Wilhelm Keitel, head of the O berkommando der 

Wehrmacht (Supreme High Command) after 1938.

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Other influential advisors include Albert Speer (Hitler¶s

architect and Armaments Minister)

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and Heinrich Hoffmann (Hitler¶s photographer and close

confidante).