"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (305 page)

legal system, 2–10; continuity of, 3–4; discriminatory, 546; dismantling of, in Annexed Eastern Territories, 419–20, 468; Führer principle and, 14–17; in General Government, 287–88, 781–83
n
; integration with Nazism, 3–10, 16–17, 30; irrelevance of, in Nazi rule, 275; in later war years, 7; liberal, rejection of, 45–49.
See also
under judicial administration
entries
; law

legal terminology: of Nazi era, 9, 16, 70–71, 587
n
; unlimited interpretation of, 356–57, 442, 504

legal theory, Nazi: acceptance by judiciary, 9, 587
n
; in civil law, 378–80; “concrete philosophy of order” as, 6, 586
n
; and emergency regulations, 79, 80; on equality/inequality, 44–50; idea of the
völkisch
in, 41–43; on individual rights, 45–49; on legal status of General Government, 265–66; racial ideology and 38; on
völkisch
inequality, 49–56

Leipzig, 629
n

Lemberg (L’viv), 759
n
, 775
n
, 787
n

leniency, complaints against, 349, 440, 889
n
, 895
n

lewd intent, 329, 335–36, 826
n

lex specialis
, 479

Ley, Robert, 153

liberalism, rejection of, 38, 45–51, 72, 536.
See
also
democracy

libraries, 224, 290, 726
n
, 789
n

licensure/accreditation, professional: in Altreich, 128–33, 140–41, 657
n
, 659
n
; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 231; in General Government, 299–300, 798
n

Liebenfels, Jörg Lanz von, 36

literature, legal, 9, 58, 587
n

living conditions: of “alien” workers in Reich, 153–54, 182–83; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 105, 195, 696
n
, 749
n
; of Eastern Europeans, 191; in General Government, 272–73, 765
n
, 776
n
, 806
n

local law, continued validity of, 871–72
n

Łód
, 331, 729
n

Łód
Ghetto, 653
n
, 674
n
, 730
n
, 748
n

looting, 843n; sentencing for, 337

Losacker, Ludwig, 764
n

Lösener, Bernhard, 50

Lublin, 263, 759
n
, 777
n
, 816
n
; police jurisdiction in, 531; political executions in, 517; special courts in, 509–10

Lueger, Hans, 36

Magdeburg, 633
n

Main Department of Justice (General Government).
See
Central Department of Justice

Main Department of Propaganda (General Government).
See
Central Department of Propaganda

Main Trustee Office East, 227, 228, 229, 731
n
, 732
n

managers: German Jewish, 142, 146, 663
n
; Polish, 231

mandatory prosecution, principle of, 433

Marital Hygiene Law.
See
Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People

Markull, Fritz, 694
n
, 696
n

marriage(s): German-Jewish, statistics on, 647
n
; legal age, for Poles, 479; permission needed for, 103–6, 479, 645
n
; “privileged mixed,” 121, 647
n
, 653
n

marriage law: in Altreich, 65, 101–8, 310, 328 383–89, 625
n
, 644–47
n
, 860–61
n
; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 106–7, 230–31, 246–48, 478–80, 744
n
; on annulment and divorce, 106–8, 384–86, 479, 860–61
n
, 911
n
; for civil servants, 94, 230–31, 310, 639
n
; for foreigners in Altreich, 104–5; in General Government, 310; for Germans with physical differences, 65; for persons with “hereditary diseases,” 103–6, for Poles, 102–3, 124, 246–48, 310, 774
n
; prohibiting “mixed marriages,” 65, 101–3, 104, 328, 473, 479, 625
n
.
See also
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor; Marriage Law

Marriage Law (July 6, 1938), 106–8, 383–85, 479, 646
n
, 647
n
, 860
n

martial law: in Altreich, 71, 326, 336–37; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 411–12; criminal 326; penal, 336–37, 412

mass executions, 451, 517–19, 901
n
, 926
n

mass murder.
See
extermination

Masurians, 123

maternity protection, for Polish women, 151–52, 234, 303, 735
n

matrimonial property law, 478

Mazovians, 240

Mehrverkehr
defense, 478, 479

Meisinger, Joseph, 318

“member of the resistance,” 517

Memel region, 236

mentally ill persons.
See
“hereditary diseases,” persons with

mercy: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 436; in General Government, 494–95, 516; as political blackmail, 517.
See also
pardons

military administration, in Annexed Eastern Territories, decrees of, 411–12

Military Installations Defense Decree, 334

misdemeanors, criminalization of, 426, 464–65, 467–68, 527–28

“missing on account of the war” cases, 897
n

Misuse of [Estate] Execution [/Administration], Law on (Dec. 13, 1934), 400

mitigating circumstances, dismissal of, 330, 441, 826
n

“mixed marriages”: law dissolving, 106–8, 479, 911
n;
law prohibiting, 65, 101–3, 104, 328, 473, 479, 625
n;
number in Greater Germany, 647
n;
“privileged,” 121, 647
n
, 653
n

mob violence, 873
n

moral standards: under Nazi system, 15, 531–32, 546, 591
n;
and “public morality,” 379, 380

Moravia.
See
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

motive, 330

movable property: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 227, 728–29
n;
in General Government, 318–19; of Jews in Altreich, 159–60, 163–64, 672–73
n
, 674
n
, 676–77
n

movement, restrictions on.
See
freedom of movement, restrictions on

Mühlmann, Kajetan, 784
n
, 785
n

multiple offices, institution of, 24–25

municipal administration: in Altreich, 17, 27, 87, 89–90, 598–99
n
, 633
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 212, 717–18
n

municipal law, in Annexed Eastern Territories, 210–12, 716–17
n

music, 785
n
, 786
n

“mystical triangle” theory, 49, 615–16
n

mysticism, in Nazi worldview, 12, 38, 40, 588
n

Nacht und Nebel
cases, 367–69, 853
n
, 854
n

Nacht und Nebel
decree (Dec. 7, 1941), 368

names laws: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 207, 711
n;
for Jews in Altreich, 169–70, 680
n

National Code on Attorneys-at-Law, 132

national community. See
Volksgemeinschaft

nationalists: anti-Semitism of, 53; attitude toward NSDAP, 12, 588–89
n;
in Civil Service, 84

nationality law.
See
citizenship law

National Labor Code (AOG; Jan. 24, 1934), 146

National Socialism.
See
National Socialist ideology; National Socialist system of government

National Socialist Association of Law Officers (NSRB).
See
National Socialist Jurists’ League

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP): and administration personnel policy, 27–35, 599–606
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 198–205, 211, 217, 220, 237–38, 288, 447, 473–77, 482–83, 485, 704–7
n
, 722
n
, 909
n;
authority for extreme measures, 541; boycott of Jewish businesses (April 1933), 79–80; and citizenship policy for “non-Germans,” 123, 237–38; civil servants and, 94, 95, 639
n
, 641
n;
as “corrective” to administration, 542–43; director of Party headquarters, 25–26; in General Government, 278, 279, 288, 783
n;
and German colonies, 691
n;
integration with administration, 24–27, 597
n;
and judiciary, 30–35, 345–49, 353–58, 600–606
n
, 832
n
, 844–45
n;
and legal representation of Jewish interests, 135–37, 660–61
n;
nationalists’ attitude toward, 12, 588–89
n;
in Nazi ideology, 615–16
n;
and penal law in Altreich, 326, 345–49, 835
n;
and Polish litigation against Germans, 474–77, 482–83, 485, 909
n;
primacy over state/administration, 10, 24–27, 542–43, 597
n
, 598
n;
role in future Europe, plans for, 187–88; seizure of power by, violence against “non-Germans” after, 79, 127, 629
n

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) members: marriage prohibitions for, 105–6; off-duty conduct of, 381; proceedings against, 839
n

National Socialist ideology: adoption by civil and judicial administration, 3–10, 30, 531–32; basic principles of, xvii, 10, 587
n;
on equality, 43–49; on ideal judge, 21–23; on individual, xviii, 47–48, 72, 534, 613
n
, 615
n;
on individual rights, 45–49, 72; on international law, 264–66, 760
n;
irrationality in, 14, 15, 38, 189, 540–41; on Jews, 54, 56–60, 620–23
n
, 629–30
n;
on justice, 38, 615
n;
on law, 16, 37, 38, 592
n
, 593
n
, 608–9
n
(
see also
legal theory, Nazi); on NSDAP, 26, 615–16
n;
power and domination in, 37, 189–90, 608
n;
on race (
see
racial ideology); special law as central concept of, 66–73, 76; on
Volk
and state, 38, 41, 608
n
, 611
n;
world in, 12

National Socialist Jurists’ League (NSRB; National Socialist Association of Law Officers; League of National Socialist German Jurists), 19, 128, 134, 346, 404, 583
n
, 593
n
, 622
n
, 836
n
, 838
n