TY - JOUR TI - Verfolgungsnetzwerke AU - Seibel, Prof Dr Wolfgang AU - Raab, Dr Jörg T2 - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie AB - In the literature, the power structures during the rule of National Socialism are characterized as a more or less uncoordinated mix of administrative bodies, which often worked parallel to or even against each other. This structure has been widely labeled as “Polycracy” or even as “Organized Chaos”. It is yet unknown, however, whether these characteristics intensified or mitigated the persecution of the Jewish population in Europe under Nazi rule. Also, an operationalization of the “Polycracy” concept and a subsequent measurement of these specific features of Nazi rule has yet to be done. In the article, the structure of the Nazi government and persecution apparatus is operationalized through division of labor and differentiation of power applying the network concept. These structural characteristics are then measured using quantitative network analysis. This is demonstrated by presenting the case of the persecution of “converted Jews” in the Netherlands from summer 1942 to spring 1943. In the conclusion, the potential of network analysis for holocaust research and the implications of the findings for the overarching questions in this research area are discussed. DA - 2003/06// PY - 2003 DO - 10.1007/s11577-003-0048-y DP - link.springer.com VL - 55 IS - 2 SP - 197 EP - 230 J2 - Koelner Z.Soziol.u.Soz.Psychol LA - de SN - 0023-2653, 1861-891X UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-003-0048-y Y2 - 2015/10/15/08:55:36 KW - Methodology of the Social Sciences KW - National Socialism KW - Personality & Social Psychology KW - Philosophy of the Social Sciences KW - Social Sciences general KW - Sociology KW - governance KW - holocaust KW - network analysis KW - persecution KW - polycracy ER -