This book contains following topics: The political and constitutional preconditions of the third reich; modus operandi and structure of the Hitler movement before; The monopoly of political power; The coordination of the Lander outside prussia and the new problem of centralism and particularism; The foundation and alteration of the social system; Party and state in the early stages of the third reich; The civil service and the administration ; The Reich government and the fuhrer's authority in the first years after 1933; Departmental polyocracy and the forms of fuhrer absolutism: Law and justice.