The Nazi Government is preparing to give the German people a new conception of property rights in which the right of the State is to take precedence over private interests, according to Roland Freisler, State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Justice, quoted by the Associated Press.
Writing in a law magazine, German Common and Economic Law, Freisler states that new civil laws are in the process of codification and in them “there will be no need and no room” for “abstract rights of property”–especially with respect to land.
The new laws, he says, in many respects already are in full operation as exemplified by the hereditary farm laws, labor laws and racial law which place Jews on a different status from other Germans with regard to property rights.
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