Each institutional stream contributed distinct bureaucratic competencies to the killing apparatus.
Evidence
The civil service infused the other hierarchies with its sure-footed planning and bureaucratic thoroughness. From the army the machinery of destruction acquired its military precision, discipline, and callousness. Industry’s influence was felt in the great emphasis upon accounting, penny-saving, and salvage, as well as in factory-like efficiency of the killing centres. Finally, the party contributed to the entire apparatus an ‘idealism’, a sense of ‘mission’, and a notion of history-making — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 72
Related
- Systematic bureaucratic destruction replaced spontaneous atrocity in the camps (similarity 0.82)
- Bureaucratic means-ends inversion sustained mass murder beyond its original purpose (similarity 0.80)
- Modern bureaucracy already contains everything needed for genocide without structural revision. (similarity 0.79)