“The present crisis in the administration of justice today is close to such a climax. A totally new conception of the administration of justice must be created, particularly a National Socialist judiciary, and for this the druggist’s salve is not sufficient; only the knife of the surgeon, as will later be shown, can bring about the solution. “The criterion, however, for the functions of justice, and particularly of the judge in the National Socialist Reich, must be a justice which meets the demands of national socialism. “He who is striding gigantically toward a new world order cannot move in the limitation of an orderly administration of justice. To accomplish such a far-reaching revolution in domestic and foreign policy is only possible if, on the one hand, all outmoded institutions, concepts, and habits have been done away with--if need be, in a brutal manner--and if, on the other hand, institutions that are in themselves necessary but are not directly instrumental in the achievement of a great goal and which, in fact, impede it, are temporarily thrust to the background. All clamor about lawlessness, despotism, injustice, etc., is at present nothing but a lack of insight into the political situation * * *.” At the time he was appointed Minister, Thierack also became the president of the German Academy of Law, and of the National Socialist Association of Jurists. The temper of the new administration of justice was reflected in Thierack’s announcement to the German Academy of Law as follows: “The formulation of law is not a matter of science and a goal in itself, but rather a matter of political leadership and organization. Therefore, the activities of the Academy relating to the formulation of law must be coordinated with the aims of political leadership.”[37] At the time of their appointments, Thierack and Rothenberger envisaged an ambitious program for simplifying the hierarchy of German courts, drastically reducing the number of judges, and “modernizing” the education and training of judges in accordance with prevailing political thought. Much of this program was never realized, but Thierack and Rothenberger did succeed in developing new devices for direct control of judicial decisions by the government. This has been also foreshadowed in Rothenberger’s thesis submitted to Hitler: