All German law and jurisprudence must in the future be based on the racial principle according to the Nazi party, the conference of Nazi jurists was instructed here today by Chief Justice Rothenberger of the Hanseatic Supreme Court. Hitler’s speeches and his “My Battle” should be considered a criterion for German law, he said.
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