Der Polizeibegriff im NS-Staat

Andreas Schwegel provides a fundamental contribution to understanding the changes in police law during the Nazi dictatorship. In doing so, the author focuses on the influence of legal journalism and judicial decisions. The destruction of traditional police law, the gradual expansion of the extra-normative police powers and the ambitions of top legal experts in the SS led to a new, radically racial concept of the police. It created the basis for a legal doctrine which provided the comprehensive legitimacy for »total« police powers, which is what the regime wanted.