In some respects, Nazi expansionist policy accelerated the process of internal dissolution, because the methods of rule in the occupied territories were subsequently transferred to the Reich itself and contributed to the progressive destruction of public administration, which became more and more controlled by party functionaries.

—Hans Mommsen, „Cumulative Radicalisation and Progressive Self-Destruction as Structural Determinants of the Nazi Dictatorship,“ in Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorship in Comparison, ed. Ian Kershaw and Moshe Levin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 75., cited in Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 41.