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• Civil Service —    A considerable section of Germany s middle class (seeMit telstand) consisted of civil servants (Beamten). Since the great mass of this group performed politically neutral tasks such as teaching, tax collection, postal and railroad operations,… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

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