status quo. Tragically, by failing to protect liberal advocacy, legal equality, and the principles that follow from the rule of law, the lawyers under the Nazi regime left Germany defenseless to Hitler’s totalitarianism. The following examples illustrate how laws were precisely drafted to systematically marginalize vulnerable groups in Germany, and thus, how Nazi law utterly abandoned the Rule of Law. The first wave of anti-Jewish laws in 1933 ousted Jews from professional and commercial life and legalized the expropriation of Jewish assets, business, and jobs by Germans. The of 1933 required German businesses to German National Recovery Act give the federal government unprecedented amounts of information, Jews were prohibited from advertising in public directories and from leasing business space, and businesses, including Jewish-owned companies, were prohibited from having Jewish employees. The second wave of anti-Jewish laws in 1934 facilitated the creating of genetic profiles that would ultimately be used to identify the biological Jews that would be targeted for annihilation. The 1934 required Law for Simplification of the Health System, doctors to file detailed health forms about their patients with Health Offices, who used the information to create eugenic profiles. The 1934 Law for the Prevention of legalized a sterilization program that targeted individuals Genetically Sick Offspring deemed insane, retarded, epileptic, and mentally ill. Of the 84,600 cases brought to the Genetic Health Courts in 1934, 62,400 people were forcibly sterilized. The scope of the sterilization program was quickly extended to social undesirables, anti-socials, foreigners, and eventually Jews. In 1935, 88,100 genetic trails resulted in 71,700 forced sterilizations.
status quo. Tragically, by failing to protect liberal advocacy, legal equality, and the principles that follow from the rule of law, the lawyers under the Nazi regime left Germany defenseless to Hitler’s totalitarianism. The following examples illustrate how laws were precisely drafted to systematically marginalize vulnerable groups in Germany, and thus, how Nazi law utterly abandoned the Rule of Law. The first wave of anti-Jewish laws in 1933 ousted Jews from professional and commercial life and legalized the expropriation of Jewish assets, business, and jobs by Germans. The German National Recovery Act of 1933 required German businesses to give the federal government unprecedented amounts of information, Jews were prohibited from advertising in public directories and from leasing business space, and businesses, including Jewish-owned companies, were prohibited from having Jewish employees. The second wave of anti-Jewish laws in 1934 facilitated the creating of genetic profiles that would ultimately be used to identify the biological Jews that would be targeted for annihilation. The 1934 Law for Simplification of the Health System, required doctors to file detailed health forms about their patients with Health Offices, who used the information to create eugenic profiles. The 1934 Law for the Prevention of Genetically Sick Offspring legalized a sterilization program that targeted individuals deemed insane, retarded, epileptic, and mentally ill. Of the 84,600 cases brought to the Genetic Health Courts in 1934, 62,400 people were forcibly sterilized. The scope of the sterilization program was quickly extended to social undesirables, anti-socials, foreigners, and eventually Jews. In 1935, 88,100 genetic trails resulted in 71,700 forced sterilizations.
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