The unintentional effect of these measures to defend the "state within a state" by "self-Gleichschaltung" was to ultimately weaken such a status.[36] At the same time, a new generation of technocratic officers was coming to the fore which was less concerned about maintaining the "state within a state", and more comfortable about being integrated into the National Socialist Wehrstaat. Bartov wrote about the new sort of technocratic officers and their views about the Nazi regime: