151,000 civil servants hear the Fuhrer’s speech at the Party Rally, Nurnberg 1933.
The Parteitag des Sieges (Party Day of Victory), 1-3 September 1933.
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The most noticeable civil service policy among the majority of the ‘old fighters’ and NSDAP functionaries started from a basic distrust. The traditionally strong cohesion of the civil service, its bureaucratic homogeneity on the basis of similar education and origin, the selection procedures for filling administrative posts and overwhelmingly conservative attitude was seen as a ‘state within a state’ opposed to the National Socialist claim to leadership. As a result, the main effort was to set up a system of control to exert permanent pressure on civil servants by infiltrating the bureaucracy with reliable National Socialists, and by Party consultation in the matter of civil service appointments.