title: Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944
author:  Franz L. Neumann 
description: <b>Franz Neumann</b> was a political activist and labor lawyer in Germany who became a political scientist in exile. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States. <b>Peter Hayes</b> is the Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University and the author or editor of seven books, including <i>From Cooperation to Complicity</i> and a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation.
zlib_text: DISCIPLINE AND ORDER
  Foundations of National Socialist Ethics
  An English translation of 
  Zucht und Ordnung:
  Grundlagen einer nationalsozialistischen Ethik
  (Hamburg, 1935)
  by
  Georg Usadel 
  Introduced and edited for PDF publication by Nathan R. Lawrence
  
  Photo: Georg Usadel
  
  INTRODUCTION
  What you are about to read is an English translation of the 1935 book, 'Zucht und
  Ordnung: Grundlagen einer nationalsozialistischen Ethik'  (Discipline and Order:
  Foundations of National Socialist Ethics)  by Georg Friedrich Hennig Usadel, a
  teacher and NSDAP politician. 
  This English translation comes from that of the only English translation available and
  put out by Third Reich Books.
  The translators description of the book reads: “The main principle is that the folk was
  created by God and that each folk comrade has a divine duty to serve the folk.
  Conscientiousness draws strength  from  a feeling of  responsibility and personal
  honor, which moves the individual to voluntarily do his duty. This duty is