Glazing

This book could be called "the doctrine of the Nazis themselves." The author shows how the fundamental principle of Nazism - the primacy of community of the people on the individual - has led to well-known monstrosities, and it illuminates about his numerous citations, as well as policy experts and theorists .
If the quotes from Hitler or Himmler not surprising, it is disturbing to see how the best lawyers competed to justify the Nazi excesses and, incidentally, destroy the foundations of their discipline.
It is surprising therefore less than the Germans were able to adhere to these doctrines as propaganda was permanent, heavy and multifaceted.
Although the material is quite austere, this book reads well, even in the second half.

Some regrets, however:
- The share reserved to genocide is very short; she deserved to be more developed in my opinion;
- The justification of the system's contradictions by theorists is not addressed; for example, the community of the people is a racial entity, but how to define it legally then we do not know scientifically defining a breed? And how to reconcile the assertion of the right of peoples to self-determination, many times repeated to justify the annexation to the Reich of minorities, with the conquest of a vital space at the expense of other peoples?
- Finally, it is surprising in a book as well documented to see the famous quote about not rescue the shipwrecked Doenitz as proof of transfer of the savagery of the war in the east of the theater of operation 'where is. The order was one of the points identified before the Nuremberg Tribunal to substantiate the charge of war crimes against Doenitz. This point was abandoned and Doenitz fulfilled this charge when it has been established that the practices of the Kriegsmarine were exactly the same as those of the US Navy (the main justification being the vulnerability of submarines and surface losses recorded at the beginning of the war during rescue operations).

These points are minor, and this book is quite recommendable to understand the Nazi regime.