The Bureaucrat’s Holocaust: How the German Civil Service Enabled Genocide Introduction: The Desk and the Death Camp When we picture the Holocaust, we often see SS guards in jackboots, emaciated prisoners behind barbed wire, and the smokestacks of Auschwitz. Yet behind the scenes of overt violence lay a vast bureaucracy of ordinary-looking offices and paper-pushers. … Continue reading The Bureaucrat’s Holocaust: How the German Civil Service Enabled Genocide