The Nazis deliberately duplicated every state function with a competing party organ

Evidence

All levels of the administrative machine in the Third Reich were subject to a curious duplication of offices. With a fantastic thoroughness, the Nazis made sure that every function of the state administration would be duplicated by some party organ: the Weimar division of Germany into states and provinces was duplicated by the Nazi division into Gaue whose borderlines, however, did not coincide, so that every given locality belonged, even geographically, to two altogether different administrative units. … These examples prove that for the Nazis the duplication of offices was a matter of principle and not just an expedient for providing jobs for party members. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 904

Categorization

• XREF: This deliberate doubling of jurisdiction is a concrete mechanism of Arendt’s ‘shapelessness’ claim, and connects to bureaucratic rationality as enabling mass exclusion elsewhere in the module. — connects to: Pollock argued the Nazis had destroyed private property’s essential features — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 488
• SEED: The non-coinciding borderlines of Gaue and states is a vivid concrete detail usable in an essay on how competing administrative grids prevent any single accountable authority.