Political Philosophy of Nazism and the Banking System of the Third Reich: Finance and Expansion
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2025-1-40-54
Abstract
Aim. To reveal the features and limits of the political philosophy of National Socialism influence on the functioning of the German banking system during the Third Reich.
Methodology. The discursive method, clustering, extrapolation, historical retrospective, comparison of sources, critical-conceptual analysis were used.
Results. It has been established that the praxeological block of National Socialist philosophy, associated with the implementation of the idea of a uniform transformation of the sociopolitical landscape, had a noticeable influence on the functioning of the banking system of the Third Reich. It is also summarized that the penetration of the political philosophy of National Socialism into the banking sector, which is a special case of the implementation of the praxeological doctrine of Gleichschaltung, was not universal.
Research implications. in Russian humanitarian knowledge, a beginning has been made to study the problem of the philosophical foundations of banking through the prism of German social-political history of the XX century.
About the Authors
V. V. Zubov
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation;
Bauman Moscow State Technical University (National Research University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vadim V. Zubov – Cand. Sci. (History), Leading Researcher, Assoc. Prof., Department of Political Science, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Moscow
A. R. Filippov
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton R. Filippov – Postgraduate Student, Department of Comparative Political Science, RUDN University
Moscow
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