Nazi authorities deliberately fortified Jewish Council authority to secure Jewish compliance

Evidence

The method used to establish Jewish elites in their new role of the Judenräte did vary – from Nazi insistence on holding elections in some of the larger ghettos in the east and in the well rooted Jewish communities in the west, all the way to the appointment of the Präses from among a group of venerable elders rounded up in the local market square. And yet there is ample evidence that the Nazi supervisors of the Jewish quarters’ were keen to sustain and enhance the authority of appointed Jewish leaders; they needed the prestige of the Jewish Councils’ to obtain the supineness of the Jewish masses. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the colonial ‘indirect rule’ toolkit used across the Islamophobia readings — native elites mediating colonial power. — connects to: Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ as a companion mechanism: how elites are co-opted to stabilize violent domination.

Broader Connections

• Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382