From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remember most of the laws enacted after 1936 were in
effect edicts from the Nazi party as parliament (the
Riechstag) was not debating and passing the laws.
What the Nazis did within Germany was suspect legally.
What they did in the occupied territories was covered
by the Geneva and Hague conventions and the accepted
standards of war and clearly illegal.
What should also be remembered was the German military
code made failure to obey any order a capital offence,
on the battlefield punishable by summary execution. The
German ethos of obeying the law is so deep seated that
even today you find pedestrians waiting at a red light
at a German light controlled crossing even when there
are no cars coming!
The idea of obeying the 'law' is deep seated in most of
us. However as IG pointed out when does one decide that
a law is illegal or immoral, the ECHR gives us some
guidance but already some ridiculous examples of the
ECHR being 'misused' are getting into the press.
Regards
Jerry
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Such as?
Anyway, I'm not suggesting that every single Nazi
could say what he did was legal, however many of them
could. Gypsies had effectively the same rights as
farm animals prior to the Nazis coming to power, so
the Nazis could essentially do what they pleased with
them under the pre-existing law.
Many pretty onerous laws were passed in Germany prior
to the Nazis coming to power, in part expressly to
stop them coming to power, however that backfired because
when they did come to power a lot of the police state
they wanted was already in place.
Steve.
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