Adolf Hitler And The Nazi Party

Jurisprudential scholars have long asked themselves, “What, if anything, does justice have to do with the law?” Is justice an inherent component within law or is it a moral judgement about law? In attempting to answer this question, we will examine the debate between H.L.A. Hart and Lon L. Fuller. The argument put forth by Hart focuses on law as it is; while Fuller’s response focuses largely on law as it should be. At its core, this debate concerns the separability of law and morality, with Hart pushing a positivist narrative and Fuller promoting natural law. Both philosophers put their framework to the test by examining the role of justice and law in the context of Nazi Germany; namely, the 1949 prosecution of a German wife for illegally

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

In the year of 1933, a great devastation known as the Holocaust began. This mass destruction was led by Adolf Hitler. He was the dictator of Germany, a German politician, and the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler as the leader of Germany led them to the bloodiest war ever to come and planned a genocide on the Jews. It was his way of targeting the minorities that he was prejudiced against, which was all Jewish life. He had great power over the Germans as a leader would, In the years of 1941-1945 he murdered approximately 6 million European Jews. This made all Jewish lives very hard to live. Hitler made them wear a gold star above their clothing to distinguish whether you are a Jew or not.

Many people find Adolph Hitler as a cruel and wicked man after what he did during the World War II and the Holocaust. He lived an unfortunate life and brought misery to the innocent lives around him. Adolf’s relationship with his parents, failure to attend art school, and moving to Vienna helped to lead him to become the inhuman monster he was.

World War 1 left Germany with a damaged economy, a leaderless country and people’s savings had dwindled. The central government was very weak and the people of Germany were desperate for some economic relief. The morale of Germany was low and the people needed something to be proud of. Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) seemed like an answer to their economic troubles and low morale. Hitler convinced the Germans that the jews had benefited from the war and were economically more successful than the starving Germans. He convinced them they were a master race and they had been betrayed by the Jews and the Communists. Hitler organized the military, he used propaganda, and he presented the Jews as the problem

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” -Primo Levi. The Holocaust was an age of man killing man over prejudices and blind hatred. Around 6 million Jews, around 3 million Ethnic Poles, 3 million Ukrainian Slavs, 2-3 million Soviets, 1.5 million Belarusian Slavs, around 400,000 Serbs, 270,000 disabled, 90,000-220,000 Romani, 80,000-200,000 Freemasons, around 20,000 Slovenes, 5,000-15,000 Homesexuals, 2,500-5,000 Jehova’s Witnesses, and 7,000 Spanish republicans were murdered, forced into ghettos, abused, and discriminated against by the Natzi’s. The mental trauma these individuals were forced to go through must have crushed their soul, hope, and their will to live.

Imagine being taken away from your family to be slaughtered like a an animal in a cold lonely place. Having to hide and having your rights taken away like your not a human being.

Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, was the mastermind behind both World War II within Europe and the Holocaust. In the “Final Solution,” concentration and extermination camps were implemented in an attempt to rid of the Jewish population entirely. Such a task, genocide, would not be done easily. By the end of World War II, over six million Jews had been killed. However, not merely Jews were subject to mass murder, but nearly five million non-Jewish people. Out of all of these deaths, a range from 1,885,889 to 2,045,215 were in the concentration camp system. Furthermore, approximately one million of these deaths were carried out within the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Thus, one in every six Jews killed during the holocaust was killed at an Auschwitz camp. These extermination camps were the only means by which such a multitude of murder could have been efficiently accomplished. The systematic mechanization of mass murder, using gas chambers and crematoria, made such high death tolls fathomable, making efficient killing easier both physically and psychologically.

The empire of the Third Reich and the notorious Nazi Party will forever go down in history as one of the most brutal and evil government organizations of the 20th century. Inspired by the ideologies of ethnic cleansing and how Germans should be the purest of all races, these ideas became rampant all across the country, and many citizens believed that this horrible wrongness could be justified, it would be for the greater good of the true Aryan people. The Nazis sent millions of innocent minorities to their deaths because they were seen as unequal and “life unworthy of life” However, history likes to forget the hundreds of thousands that didn’t die in camps, but died in hospitals at the hands of trusted physicians. Inspired by famous

In Germany, Adolf Hitler became leader. He told everyone that they will have jobs and be able to provide for there families. Hitler was not fair to everyone though. But what they didn't know is that they would be taking jobs and rights away from Jewish people.

The debates over the nature of law have long known as the magnet to attract social controversies within the academia, where the enthusiasm in public sphere about morality’s role in laws often lead to criticism on the legal system’s ability to recognize what counts lawful and unlawful, and the questionable legal decisions that were made in real-life cases. Legal philosophers, such as Hart and Fuller are divided in their perspectives on identifying whether or not the legal system during the Nazi era was legitimate. I support Hart’s idea that while the Nazi Germany’s laws might not seem justifiable, they are nonetheless, defensible laws. Fuller, on the other hand, claims that based on the moral values of these regulations,

Adolf Hitler was the ruler of Germany during World War II (WWII). Being the one of the worst rulers in history, Hitler was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. He was a menace to society and to his own country because he tried to eradicate millions of his own citizens. Hitler was a desensitized person who only had the belief that there could only be one superior race. As Chancellor of Germany, he had complete and utter control over the Germans’ minds. Hitler was one of the most gruesome dictators of the 20th century because of his unstable child-teen years, his rise to power, and his idea for The Final Solution. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 at 6:30PM, in a small town in the Austrian village of Braunau inn (Nodak.edu).

Adolph Eichmann was born to a Calvinist family in Solingen, Germany on March 19, 1906. Soon after his Eichmann’s family moved to Linz, Austria. In school Eichmann was involved in numerous sporting activities, however he was known as a poor scholastic student. It is also interesting to note that similarly to Adolph Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, Eichmann physically did not resemble the stereotypical tall, blonde, Aryan male, and due to his darker complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes Eichmann was teased as a child and derisively called the “little Jew.”

Hart, a legal positivist, believes that “law is law,” and argued against Radbrunch’s theory in servings as a solution to fix Germany’s judicial system. He argued against his theory and wanted a separation of law and morality because he thought that it would only “cloak the true nature of the problems,” and encourage a “romantic optimism,” rather than addressing the dilemma that the courts had in deciding on convicting Nazi criminals. Though Hart acknowledges that this case poses a difficult situation for the law, he does propose his own solution to the problem. With his positivist approach to the law, saying that the laws are the rules expected of us, and enforced at a particular time, he proposes that the “grudge informer” should be punished through a different and ‘new’ set of laws. These laws he deems “retrospective laws,” would entail punishing acts such as revenge and duplicity. However, this dilemma between choosing if the “grudge informer” was innocent

The murder of six million Jews and six million other religions/races is known as the Holocaust. This horrible attempt to annihilate certain races and religions was all brought upon by one man, Adolf Hitler.