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that National Socialism helped to cure
some of these conditions?
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Yes, but at a terrible price...
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Please confine yourself
to answering the questions only.
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Therefore, was it not possible
that a judge might wear a swastika...
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and yet work for what he thought was best
for his country?
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No. It was not possible.
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You were not in the administration...
:35:32
from the years 1935 to 1943...
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by your own admission.
:35:39
Is it not possible
that your view of the administration...
:35:44
might be distorted?
:35:47
No. It is not.
:35:50
How can you testify about
what was going on in the administration...
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if you were not there?
:35:55
I had many friends
in the legal administration.
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There were journals and books.
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From journals and books?
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I see.
:36:12
You referred to:
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"Novel National Socialist
measures introduced...
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"among them sexual sterilization. "
:36:20
Are you aware that sexual sterilization
was not invented by National Socialism...
:36:24
but had been advanced for years before
as a weapon...
:36:27
in dealing with the mentally incompetent
and the criminal?
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Yes. I am aware of that.
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Are you aware that it has advocates
among leading citizens in other countries?
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I am not an expert on such laws.
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Then permit me to read one to you.
:36:45
This is a High Court opinion...
:36:48
upholding such laws in existence
in another country.
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And I quote: