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This is an interesting book that delves into the shared history of Nazism and corporate management. Some of it is pretty well known, at least in a broad almost cliched way of understanding Germany between 1933-1945, but this puts some more meat on the bone. A little bit dry in places, but worth reading if you're interested in modern history and social studies.

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A brilliant piece of history exploring the connection between the building of Nazism during the 1930s and the post war boom in management studies. By focusing his research on Reinhard Höhn, Johann Chapoutot, translated by Steven Rendall and published by Europa, draws a direct line between the management of individuals in communities during the Third Reich and the management of employees in business structures of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries.
Readable, while still be complex, this is a brilliant book for students of the era as well as students of management and business studies. I will be recommending this to my Sixth form students of Business, Politics and History. Often we debate, in Ethics and Theory of Knowledge, the use of medical research emerging from this era and now we really must explore the proliferation of these business practices emerging out of one of the darkest periods in European history.

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