They aren't a very good example of people acting in the interests of Power and Necessity, however. Their acts are rational in the context of their belief system, which included such beliefs as "Slavs are racially inferior, and therefore the Soviet Union will quickly fall" and "Jews are a race of parasites who need to be driven from Europe, preferably killed."
--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> One could provide many compelling criticisms of
> Nazis. Claiming that Nazis were irrational isn't one
> of them. They were a sterling example of what Weber
> called bureaucratic rationality. (I emphasize this
> point to rebut the passion = bad and rationality = good
> dichotomy lurking within some of the posts in this thread.)
>
> Miles
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