Racism and bureaucracy developed separately before combining for total destruction

Evidence

Although in the end racism and bureaucracy proved to be interrelated in many ways, they were discovered and developed independently. No one who in one way or the other was implicated in their perfection ever came to realize the full range of potentialities of power accumulation and destruction that this combination alone provided. Lord Cromer, who in Egypt changed from an ordinary British charge d’affaires into an imperialist bureaucrat, would no more have dreamed of combining administration with massacre (“administrative massacres” as Carthill bluntly put it forty years later), than the race fanatics of South Africa thought of organizing massacres for the purpose of establishing a circumscribed, rational political community (as the Nazis did in the extermination camps). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 487

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the fusion of racism and bureaucracy as the distinctive mechanism of totalitarian domination, and coins the notion that no one foresaw their combined destructive potential.
• XREF: Connects to Weber’s rational bureaucracy and its role in producing impersonal administration, and to Arendt’s later argument about administrative mass murder. — connects to: Bureaucracy attracted the best intelligentsia while race attracted the worst; Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567; Race and bureaucracy are imperialism’s two paired ruling devices — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 534 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 487

Broader Connections

• Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule #expands (0.90) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567
• Race and bureaucracy are imperialism’s two paired ruling devices #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 534
• Racist worldviews require modern bureaucracy to implement extermination #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 223
• Systematic bureaucratic destruction replaced spontaneous atrocity in the camps #expands (0.80)