Rob von Thaden (@rvontha.bsky.social)

The Nazi Party and its Violence Against the Jews, 1933-1939: Violence as a Historiographical Concept In his masterpiece, Behemoth, first published in 1942, Franz Neumann referred to violence as “not just one unimportant phenomenon in the structure of National Socialist society.” Violence, Neumann argued, “is the very basis upon which the [Nazi] society rests.”1 He regarded violence as a technique of dominating the masses from above, and the ministerial bureaucracy, the armed forces, the industrial and agrarian leadership and the Nazi party all aimed to dominate German society by using violence https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/nazi-party-and-violence-against-jews.html