The Führerprinzip (Führer's Principle) includes the following essential
elements :

* a complete and total authority is vested in the Fuehrer
* a pyramidal organization structure in its details as well as in its
entirety
* the Fuehrer is at the top and he nominates the necessary leaders for
the various spheres of work of the Reich's direction, the Party
apparatus and the State administration.

Furthermore, the Führer has some additional powers like :

1. Shaping the collective will of the people within himself and enjoying
the political unity and entirety of the people in opposition to individual
interests
2. Uniting in himself all the sovereign authority of the Reich. All public
authority in the state as well as in the movement is derived from the
authority of the Führer
3. The state does not hold political authority as an impersonal unit but
receives it from the üs the executor of the national will
4. The authority of the Führer is complete and all embracing : it unites
in itself all the means of political direction. It extends into all fields of
national life; it embraces the entire people, which is bound to the
Fuehrer in loyalty and obedience. The authority of the Fuehrer is not
limited by checks and controls, by special autonomous bodies or
individual rights, but it is free and independent, all-inclusive and
unlimited.

Finally, the Fuehrer-Reich of the (German) people is founded on the
recognition that the true will of the people cannot be disclosed
through parliamentary votes and plebiscites but that the will of the
people in its pure and uncorrupted form can only be expressed
through the Fuehrer.

Thus at the head of the Reich, stands a single Fuehrer, who in his
personality embodies the idea which sustains all and whose spirit and
will therefore animate the entire community. As stated in the
Organization Book of the Nazi Party: "The will of the Fuehrer is the
Party's law." And the first commandment for the Party members
declares:
"The Fuehrer is always right and as such he is responsible only to his
conscience and the German people."

And do not make the mistakes to think that such ideas were not shared
by other Nazis dignitaries who would have just been cynicals thugs.
They were not and it is all the tragedy of Germany. They were nuts like
Rudolf Hess who, in a speech broadcast at Cologne on 25 June 1934,
characterized the position of the Fuehrer as follows :

"It is with pride that we see that one man is kept above all
criticism-that is the Fuehrer. The reason is that everyone feels and
knows: he was always right and will always be right. The National
Socialism of us all is anchored in the uncritical loyalty, in the devotion
to the Fuehrer that does not ask for the wherefore in the individual
case, in the tacit performance of his commands. We believe that the
Fuehrer is fulfilling a divine mission to German destiny! This belief is
beyond challenge."

Eventually, the Fuehrer's power descends to subleaders in a
hierarchical order. The implementation of the terror machinery was an
easy task when a whole people acquiesces to such monstruosities.
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Himmler paying his
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the snow of the Berghof
in March 1944. Photo
taken by  Walter
Ferentz, Hitler's colour
photographer