 Legal mentality as a source of the Third Reich lawB. A. Antonov () RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Economics. Management. Law, 2020, issue 2 Abstract: The article is devoted to the legal system of Third Reich and its characteristic features, such as its essence, origin and qualification, as well as sources of law (and their hierarchy in dialectical development).The priority feature of the Third Reich legal system is considered to be the elimination of law as a legal source and an individual as a legal subject, which gives Nazi law the character of a social system that can only function in a state of emergency and martial law, when the rights and freedoms of man and citizen are limited or canceled. In order to justify and introduce national socialist law in Germany (from 1933 to 1945) national lawyers worked out its classification according to the types (methods) of mentality. Being employed in the legal system of Nazi Germany, the classification to a large extent stimulated the violation of such concepts as law and legal right, transforming many reasons for eliminating any type of dissent into the legal ones.As a working hypothesis the author puts forward an assumption according to which the goal of the Third Reich legal system and its political ideology was that of molding standardized national mentality that regulated people’s behavior in the way wanted by German Nazi. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aca:journl:y:2020:id:250 DOI: 10.28995/2073-6304-2020-2-130-142 Access Statistics for this article More articles in RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Economics. Management. Law from Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) |
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