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Hannah Arendt and Jews and politics

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Military successes are admittedly important, but not as important as economic success. Hermann Gring was put in charge of the four-year plan that related to the central control and direction of the entire economy.[18] It is essential that a totalitarian state play a direct role in every aspect of the operation of the state but with respect to the economy there only needs to state direction, with only so much control as to ensure effectiveness. When Hitler allocated someone a role, he tended to allocate a contradicting role to another person or persons. This ensured that policy -especially economic policy- was applied ineffectively as conflicting interests limited the effectiveness of certain strategies. Hitler put Gring in charge of the four-year plan but encouraged competition and the agricultural sector through the Reich Economic Chamber. Put simply, the point of a centralized economy is to eradicate private competition and establish a state-run economy similar to communist economic systems and this is what the four-year plan was geared to do; it would transform Germany into a war economy and as such aimed to prepare for war, reduce unemployment and to demand obedience of the population through the accelerated growth in armed forces.[19]