Deadly Discourse: Negotiating Bureaucratic Consensus for the Final Solution through Organizational and Technical Communication
Journal: TigerPrints (Clemson University)
Year: 2010

The Final Solution was largely accomplished in eleven months; its executors, the Nazi SS, faced the constant problem that as killing and plunder escalated so did internal competition and corruption; and the SS deliberately cultivated an intensely competitive and polycratic organizational culture that fit the Nazi worldview of life-as-struggle. By tying these three observations together—that the Final Solution was punctuated, entropic, and polycratic—the problem arises: How did SS organizational