Wannsee Conference Was Illegal in Third Reich
True, in the F;hrerstaat (system of government unique to the Third Reich) Hitler’s word (i.e., his explicit written order) was above any and all written laws… but there was no written F;hrer’s order to commit serial mass murder (genocide) of Jews.
It is also true that Hitler’s second-in-command Hermann G;ring issued to Heydrich a written order (on behalf of Hitler, no doubt) to find and implement the optimal solution to the “Jewish question” … but there was not even a whiff of genocide in that latter. Actually, it was exactly the opposite – the letter referred to previous method of forced emigration… to somewhere.
Consequently, every attendee of Wannsee Conference was committing a capital offense and thus was looking at either a firing squad (those in SS uniform) or a Fallbeil (those in civilian clothes).
Hence, the primary reason to bring to the conference representatives of Ministry of the Interior (Stuckart) and Ministry of Justice and the courts (Freisler) was to make sure that both entities look the other way and do not ask uncomfortable (for all attendees and their organizations) questions of the legality of their method of “final solution to the Jewish question”.
It worked perfectly… however, twenty years later the prosecutors and the courts of the Federal Republic of Germany used the criminal law of the Third Reich (and the fact that it was blatantly violated by Wannsee conspirators and others responsible for the “Holocaust Project”) to bring some perpetrators to justice.
True, most got “a slap on the wrist” and many were even acquitted due to lack of evidence and unreliable witnesses… but this highly imperfect justice was still much better than no justice at all.
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