This is the Hans Frank (since hanged) who at his trial testified concerning the racial persecution in which he had participated. He said:
“A thousand years will pass and this guilt of Germany will still not be erased.”
On 10 March 1936 the defendant Schlegelberger said (NG-538, Pros. Ex. 21):
“In the sphere of criminal law the road to a creation of justice in harmony with the moral concepts of the new Reich has been opened up by a new wording of section 2 of the criminal code, whereby a person is also to be punished even if his deed is not punishable according to the law, but if he deserves punishment in accordance with the basic concepts of criminal law and the sound instincts of the people. This new definition became necessary because of the rigidity of the norm in force hitherto.”
Reich Minister Thierack on 5 January 1943 said (NG-275, Pros Ex. 25):
“The inner law of the guardian of justice is national socialism; the written law is only to be an aid to the interpretation of National Socialist ideas.”
In the words of the defendant Rothenberger the project was “to ‘organize’ Europe anew and to create a new world philosophy.” Again, he said (NG-075, Pros. Ex. 27):
“* * * this reaction of ‘antagonism toward law’ is justified because the present moment absolutely demands a rigid restriction of the power of law. He who is striding gigantically toward a new world order cannot move in the limitation of an orderly administration of justice.”
Strangely enough we find the Nazi judicial system condemned by a judge who in practice was its most fanatical adherent. The defendant Rothaug testified as follows:
“As of every other civil servant, of the judge there was demanded not only obedience but also loyalty and an inner connection with the doctrine of the State. The change-over of the judiciary to that different intellectual level was attempted via the political factor of the administration of justice, and that was when things came to grief; and it was then that the notorious ‘back door’ which I have mentioned, took effect.”