ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a description of Nazi juridical process and considers how the Party reimagined its governance structures so that it legalised and promoted total terror. It also discusses measures directed at boycotting Jewish business and the Nuremberg laws of 1935. Following this, the chapter looks at the importance of language rules and doublespeak in Nazi law and communication. These tools gave members of the Nazi elite (and German society more generally) an objective and non-descriptive language which they could use to disguise from themselves the true nature of their activities. The chapter also provides a brief note on German resistance to the Nazi regime and highlights the importance of reviving instances when people disobeyed the law and demonstrated moral courage. One reason anti-Semitism erupted the way that it did in Germany was because of the nature of Nazism and the processes it established to remake political forms and notions of law.
