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Führerprinzip was the German name for leader principle, a system with a hierarchy of leaders which was in use in military organisations all over the world before it was evinced by Adolf Hitler during World War II.
The philosophy of this system is that each organisation is seen as a of leaders, where every leader (Führer, in German) has absolute responsibility in his/her own area, and complete subordination. This idea was based on the function of military organisations where it is still used today.
This principle was the law of the Nazi party and later transferred onto the whole German society. Most notable changes include the replacement of elected local governments by appointed mayors and the cancellation of associations and unions, whose leaders were elected, and their replacement by mandatory associations whose leaders were appointed. The private corporations were allowed to keep their internal organisation which was just renamed from hierarchy to Führerprinzip. In practice, the selection of unable candidates often lead to micromanagement and inability to formulate coherent policy was common. Albert Speer noted that many Nazi officials were very afraid of drawing decisions unless Hitler was present.
During the Nuremberg Trials, Führerprinzip was attempted to be used as a mean to avoid the responsibility for war crimes.
In 1999, United Kingdom's Prime Minister Tony Blair likened the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milosevic to Hitler's Germany and his Führerprinzip principle. Source: [1]
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