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Thomas Schaarschmidt, Die Stadt und das Geld: Haushalt und Herrschaft im nationalsozialistischen München, German History, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 482–483, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghy020
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Writing a book on the history of local budgets is a real challenge. On the one hand, you cannot expect too many readers to be interested in an apparently boring topic like the administration of public finances. On the other hand, you need a good deal of technical expertise in order to understand what it means to draw up a budget. Adam Tooze’s Wages of Destruction (2006) has taught us that money did matter on the central level of the Third Reich. However, is this also the case when it comes to local administrations?
For many good reasons, public interest in the local history of Nazi Germany is unabated. This may be due to locals who are particularly interested in the history of the place where they feel at home. From a more academic point of view, research into the interaction of state, party and society on the local level promises to offer new insights into the multi-levelled political fabric of the Nazi dictatorship.
