Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Adolf Hitler came to power, tall, flabby Dr. Hans Frank, one of the first Nazis, was kept busy defending brown-shirted terrorists in German courts and figuring out legal ways & means for the Nazis to take over the Government. Since Jan. 30, 1933, Dr. Frank has been even more occupied writing a Nazi Penal Code, compiling briefs proving the Third Reich's legal rights to its conquests, thinking up new methods to milk the Jews of their money and jobs...
...Frank who introduced "love of the Führer" into Nazi Germany as a "legal concept." He also invented the notion of "civic death," whereby the Nazis' enemies would be denied all legal existence and hence would have no rights, recourse to law or protection. Instead of "no punishment without law," Dr. Frank's motto was "no crime without punishment." Besides being a Minister Without Portfolio and Reich's Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Frank is also president of the German Academy of Law and Governor General of the Occupied Territories in Poland. Last week his various duties...
...Berlin, before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger...
...ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans in Russian-occupied Poland who would return to the Nazi homeland...
...article containing this piece of super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this...