Nazis built parallel party shadow offices beside each state post

Evidence

“For those positions of state power which the National Socialists could not occupy with their own people, they created corresponding “shadow offices’ in their own party organization, in this way setting up a second state beside the state…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2719

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘shadow office’ concept — a parallel party structure duplicating state positions.
• XREF: Mirrors Kravchenko’s observation of a ‘real government’ behind the ostensible one in the USSR; the dual-state mechanism recurs across totalitarian regimes.