Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIIVarious
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Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume III
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
I believe I have now answered your question. I would like to say one
more thing, so as to emphasize the gravity of the development. I had
the permission to show the Tribunal the structure of the acts of the
State. Naturally that structure can also be applied to Hitler’s acts,
but only one of those acts lost its meaning almost completely under
Hitler. If Your Honors will kindly recall chart 1 to your memories,
where on the left side we had the norms and then the authorization
norms, the norms which authorized interference, I had differentiated
between special and general relationship or subordination--pointing to
the soldier and the citizen.[153] Those differentiations under Hitler
gradually lose meaning. Hitler exerted and overburdened the strength
of the German people to such an extent that finally he no longer
saw before him citizens and smaller groups of persons under special
obligation among them, but for him the Germans, all Germans were always
on duty. A private sphere of activity no longer existed for him. With
him there is no meaning in the differentiation between substantive laws
and official instructions. It is all the same to him. The citizen is
dead, because all have become officials. That is the final point of a
development which, from a complicated state of affairs, was working
towards simplicity, and that is the gruesome result.
PRESIDING JUDGE BRAND: Dr. Schilf, would you pardon a question
directed to the witness at this time? Dr. Jahrreiss, if this question
interferes with the orderly course of your presentation, I suggest
that you ignore it. But you told us in your discussion of procedure
your views as to decrees signed by Hitler and one or more ministers.
Would you care to specify or to indicate to us a little the view you
have with reference to the justification of authority decrees not
signed by Hitler, but signed by one or more of the ministers? I think
we have seen a good many of those in the record. In other words,
decrees executed or signed only by various of the ministers, but not by
Hitler. Do you understand my question?
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