Always in fives. „First the files, then the guns” – the administrative grammar of genocide under the Nazi German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945

Opis

This is a work of political science. It asks how routine administrative practices – registration, document control, spatial governance, and staged “procedures” – were converted into instruments of genocidal policy during the Nazi German occupation of Poland (1939–1945). The emphasis is institutional and analytical: how rules, files, offices, and intermediaries produced coercion in everyday venues (counters, gates, platforms, clinic rooms), and how individuals responded within those constraints.
The study proceeds in two parts. Part I develops the conceptual toolkit drawn from Weber (bureaucratic rationalization), Arendt (banality of evil), Bauman (modernity and organization), Foucault and Agamben (biopolitics and exception), Beetham and Schmitt (legitimacy and the state of exception), and Mann (infrastructural power), alongside literatures on obedience, moral disengagement, and social influence (Chapter 1–3). Part II carries the evidentiary weight. It analyzes the testimonies of forty survivors from the Jewish Historical Institute archives in Warsaw (Collection 301) and recasts them as step-sequenced evidence of administrative action.
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