The law in the service of Nazi murderers

German legal formalism combined with an absence of basic human courage made German jurists Hitler's partners in crime. These legal experts enabled the Nazis to take over Germany more easily. They enabled the rest of the citizenry and the soldiers - those who turned a blind eye, who informed, who looted Jewish property, who collaborated and who carried out orders - to be part of the Nazi killing machine by providing them with "moral" justification for doing such things, in the guise of obeying the law.
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