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.
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  **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
  
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  Photo: Georg Usadel
  
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   **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 