Regarding the mentality of Nazi Germany during World War II, Judge Jenning's final statement in the courtroom has revealed very clearly.
Most people thought they were doing the right thing, Hitler led Germany out of an economic downturn, gave the Germans a faith-like philosophy by shaping the enemy, and through this, thousands of Jews were slaughtered : They were tricked into the room and said they wanted to take a bath, but they were turned on the poison gas to be the object of the experiment; the children were engraved with imprints, executed, and occasionally they could die without pain with maca... Do you know this? Do you understand?
When watching the video in the courtroom, the Nazi German judges in the dock were full of shock and tears. When those images are actually projected, when killing and death are clearly presented, people will be touched. Can we justify ourselves? Said that he was just an ant in the torrent of history who was unable to fight back. And as judges, all we can do is apply the law, even if those legal judges know it's bad law? Or, in order to achieve some nobler purpose, we have to go through a transitional stage, by which time, both the wicked law and Hitler himself will dissipate?
People are ends, not means. When the concept of man itself is ignored and becomes just a symbol, there is no difference in your eyes between the death of one person and the death of thousands of people. If we say we don't know, it's only because we deliberately close our eyes and don't want ourselves to know. Either we are vested interests, or we are mediocre villains.
I have always been a firm supporter of the natural law school. There must be a higher value than the existing law. What lawyers are eager to find is justice, not just the legal text itself. I also do not want to believe and admit that the law is a tool of class rule. While the reality may be, I've been wondering since the first time I read it in a high school textbook. Because I am eager to find the answer, I still want to take the road of public law, because for me, this may be a more meaningful choice.
"Those who sacrifice the people around them for so-called bigger goals, bigger ambitions, but frequently set our world on fire."
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