"The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary."
"It was characteristic of the blindness about justice of the liberal way of thinking about law that it sought to make out of criminal law a great liberating charter, the 'Magna Carta of the criminal.'"
In March 1933, Hitler consolidated power through the Enabling Act, transferring all legislative authority to the Nazi regime. Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt provided theoretical justification for this power consolidation, particularly following the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934. Schmitt attacked the separation of powers doctrine, arguing that the Führer must simultaneously serve as judge and leader. He contended that separating leadership from judicial authority would create opposition and destabilize the state. Schmitt criticized liberal legal thinking for treating criminal law as a protective charter, viewing such separation as fundamentally flawed governance.
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