English Translation

8a 10 by the Führer. Not all outdated provisions from the acquired law building could be discovered and eliminated with one single time. Not infrequently the inten- bility of a legal sentence proves itself only after years. In addition, fundamental reforms in particular are often put into a final legal form only after they have matured and become practical. Therefore, the silence of the legislator would easily be interpreted as recognition of the past would mean ignoring the economic conditions under which the new legislative territory is established. Rather, it is necessary to examine in all cases of doubt whether the traditional norm fits into the new order and whether its continuation corresponds to the will of the 1) leadership. The Reichsführer # and head of the German Police Department spoke at the inaugural meeting of the Police Committee of the Akademie für Deutsches Recht on 11.10. In 1936, it was very clear how the German police, in the most difficult months after the takeover of power in order to obey the mandate of the unconditional internal security of the empire, had to go beyond surviving laws in the fulfilment of a higher right. He said: "We National Socialists at that time found a police force, which had originally been created as a stubbornly obedient instrument of power of an absolutist state, which from that time had brought with it the unpopularity and hatred of the population as the greatest and most formidable inheritance, but which had lost the power perfection of the police of the abllist state. It was still called "power apparatus", but in reality it was no longer any one; it was a form in need of help, bound up at all corners and ends, everywhere the officials had to take care that they did not fall into the grip of a criminal themselves and the criminal went out empty. We National Socialists have then ... . . . not without right that we have put into work within ourselves, but without law. I have put myself from before to the point of view whether a paragraph is contrary to our actions, is to me 1) Cf. Frick, op. cit., Stuckart, a.o.; Best, o.c.; in the same sense the guiding principles on the position and duties of the judge, German Law, 1936, p.123 f.;ferner Krüger. Recht und Geşetz, Deutsche Verwaltungs1937, p.203 ff. 70411