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lukan01/22/20251 replyview on HN

"Everything the Nazis did they had a law for. The mass murder was all lawful according to the 3rd Reich's laws."

Can you cite those laws?

I doubt you can, because they do not exist. There were laws for removing jews from academic positions and to confiscate their belongings - but no law allowing to kill them based on them being jews.

The Nazis operated from the very beginning on the principle do things and later maybe add a law about it, if necessary.


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orwin01/22/2025

And it's not what rule of law mean.

I now understand why this is even a debate.

"the mechanism, process, institution, practice, or norm that supports the equality of all citizens before the law, secures a nonarbitrary form of government, and more generally prevents the arbitrary use of power."

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