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Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

Franz Neumann’s classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes.

Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions.

After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the war to political psychology.

But his contributions in Behemoth were groundbreaking: that the Nazi organization of society involved the collapse of traditional ideas of the state, of ideology, of law, and even of any underlying rationality.

The book must be “studied, not simply read,” Raul Hilberg wrote.

Franz Leopold Neumann (May 23, 1900 – September 2, 1954) was a German–Jewish political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism.

He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States. Together with Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the founders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

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