English Translation

I do, in principle, what I can answer to my conscience in my work for leaders and people, in accordance with common sense, in order to fulfil my duties. Whether the other people were complaining about the "break of the laws" was completely indifferent in these months and years, when it was about the life or death of the German people. The foreign country - not least nourished by numerous domestic forces - of course spoke of a lawless state in the police and thus in the state. They called it unrighteous because it did not correspond to what they were right to. In fact, through our work, we laid the foundations for a new right, the right of the German people to live." 1) If therefore the general order is above the outdated law, the will of the leadership over the wills of former legislators, on the other hand this will does not smoke to have found unconditionally legal expression in order to be binding. The law represents one, not the form of the creation of the law. The leader uses beside. it e.g. the form of the decree or decree, without any distinction between the individual forms in principle 2). The previous teaching of the precedence of the law cannot be transferred to the relationship of these forms to each other in any way, because their condition, the separation of legislative and executive violence no longer exists. It is not the form of the measure taken, but the will of the leader to shape it. Any measure which must be regarded as an expression of the Führer's will to set right is right. the leader at the party congress of freedom established the foundations of the relationship between the party and the state, thus the German constitutional law was further educated. From this consideration is explained the further process of the legal formation, which consists of the 1) Himmler-Best-Höhn, in Frank Himmler, Grundfragen der deutschen Polizei, Hamburg, p.11,ff. 2) Cf. The examples at Kö t g e n , Vom deutschen Staatsleben, Jahrb. ö.R.,24.Bd.,1937,Tübingen 1938, pp. 1 et seq., in particular pp. 142 et seq .