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We have seen that by 5939 Himmler had made Germany into a modern police state. The judiciary was neutralized. The civil service and the army remained as great pillars of the regime but they accepted the police apparat as equal, and recognized its claim to dictate the ‘style’ of internal administration and to formulate internal government policies. There remained the other great state institution, the National Socialist party. The last phase in the development of the German police state came when the police apparat replaced the party as the ideologues of the state, and transformed the regime into a totalitarian police state.
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Quoted by Buchheim, in Broszat et al.
Ibid.
Buchheim, in Broszat, p. 36x.
Ionescu, p. 82.
Hume, On the First Principles of Government.,
Ionescu, p. 84.
Ibid., p. 105.
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Chapman, B. (1970). The Totalitarian Police State. In: Police State. Key Concepts in Political Science. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00944-2_8
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