The rise in the Nazi hierarchy

Evidence

Such an innocuous and unimportant society, for instance, as the NSKK (the National Socialist corps of automobilists founded in 1930) was suddenly elevated, in 1933, to the status of an elite formation, sharing with the SA and the SS the privilege of an independent affiliated unit of the party. Nothing followed this rise in the ranks of the Nazi hierarchy; retrospectively, it looks like an idle threat to the SA and SS. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2739

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freiburg’s ordoliberal circle remained active research centers under Nazism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 622