Extracts from two speeches, on "the elimination of the Jews from German jurisprudence" and on racial legislation in the unified German state

DOCUMENTS OF GERMAN POLITICS
[Dokumente der Deutsehen Politik]
Vol, IV, Pages 225-230.
Speech by Dr. Frank on "The Jews in Jurisprudence" delivered at the Congress of the Reich Group of University Professors on the National Socialists Jurist League in Berlin on October 3, 1936.
" * * * this topic embraces all that which in our opinion
will contribute to establishing National Socialism in the field of
jurisprudence thus eliminating any alien racial spirit therefrom. * * *
"We National Socialists have started with anti-Semitism in our fight to free the German people, to re-establish a German Reich and to build our entire German spiritual, cultural and social life on the indestructable foundation of our race. We started a gigantic battle in 1919 * * * It took all the self confidence of
German manhood to withstand and to triumph—in this fight to substitute the German spirit for Jewish corruption—over the concerted attacks of powerful world groups of which Jewry is a representative.
"Particularly we National Socialist Jurists have a mission of our own to accomplish in this battle. We construct German law on the foundations of old and vital elements of the German people. * * * It is so obvious that it hardly needs mentioning
that any participation whatsoever of the Jew in German law—be it in a creative, interpretative, educational or critical capacity,— is impossible. The elimination of the Jews from German jurisprudence is in no way due to hatred or envy but to the under-
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standing that the influence of the Jew on German life is essen-itally a pernicious and harmful one and that in the interests of the German people and to protect its future an unequivocal boundary must be drawn between us and the Jews. * * *
"I would like to ask you to recognize the fact and to be thankful that the National Socialist movement alone, and, in it, each and every SA and SS man has enabled you to act independently of the Jewish hegemony. The spirit of National Socialist willingness to sacrifice—the achievement of the National Socialists and the beginning of this revolutionary era of Germandom—should also live in your universities. .
DOCUMENTS OF GERMAN POLITICS
Vol. II, Pages 294-298
Radio speech by the leader of German Jurists, Reichsminister Dr. Frank on March 20, 1934 (according to official text in "Deutsche Rechtsfront")
"The first task was that of establishing a unified German state. It was an outstanding historical and juristic-political accomplishment on the part of our Fuehrer that he reached boldly into the development of history and thereby eliminated the sovereignty of the various German states. At last we have now, after 1,000 years, again a unified German state in every respect. It is no longer possible for the world, based on the spirit of resistance inherent in small states, which are set up on an egotistical scale and solely with a view to their individual interest, to make calculations to the detriment of the German people. That is a thing of the past and for all times to come. * * *
"The second fundamental law of the Hitler Reich is racial legislation. The National Socialists were the first ones in the entire history of human law to elevate the concept of race to the status of a legal term. The German nation, unified racially and nationally, will in the future be legally protected against any further disintegration of the German race stock. * * *
"The sixth fundamental law was the legal elimination of those political organizations which within the state, during the period of the reconstruction of the people and the Reich, were once able to place their selfish aims ahead of the common good of the nation. This elimination has taken place entirely legally. It is not
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the coming to the fore of despotic tendencies but it was the necessary legal consequence of a clear political result, of the 14 years' struggle of the NSDAP.
"In accordance with these unified legal aims in all spheres, particular efforts have for months now been made as regards the work of the great reform of the entire field of German law.
"As a leader of the German Jurists I am convinced that together with all strata of the German people, we shall be able to construct the legal state of Adolf Hitler in every respect and to such an extent that no one in the world will at any time be able to dare to attack this legal state as regards its laws."