Nazi organizational boundaries were deliberately irrational and overlapping

Evidence

“The 32 Gaue …do not coincide with the administrative or military regions, or even the 21 divisions of the SA, or the 10 regions of the SS, or the 23 zones of the Hitler Youth… Such discrepancies are the more remarkable because there is no reason for them” ( Roberts, op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2730

Categorization

• XREF: The deliberately confused, overlapping administrative geography illustrates the totalitarian rejection of means-end rationality — dialogues with the ‘modern bureaucratic rationality enables mass exclusion’ building block in the scaffolding list. — connects to: Nazi rule operated through bureaucratic authority extended to state and group organizations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 975