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...first to sympathize with rough & ready Nazi methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will be a regular feature of German Justice...
...Said Dr. Giirtner: "We have substituted for the outworn maxim nulla poena sine lege ('no punishment unless law has been infringed') the more efficacious nulla crimen sine poena ('no crime left unpunished'), regardless of whether or not law has been infringed." "For the German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly...
Meeting in advance the obvious objection that under such a system each judge will have to make up what is right and wrong as he goes along, Dr. Giirtner weightily declared: "The judge, basing himself on the popular conception of what is right, will obtain an unerringly accurate sense as to what may or may not legally be done. . . . Moreover Realmleader Hitler is ceaselessly endeavoring to be an embodied expression of the people's will. Thus a judge can find in the will of the Realmleader a guiding light to aid him in his own task...
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