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Extract from a legal journal, reporting a judicial decision on the sovereign authority of the party and its officials, whose political measures are not subject to courts' review

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Date: 1935

Literal Title: Deutsche Juristen Zeitung, (German Lawyers' Journal) . . . 3. The decision.

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-2491

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450362

Notes:The particular case before the court is not identified.

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GERMAN LAWYERS' JOURNAL
[Deutsche Juristen Zeitung] 1935, published by Dr. Carl Schmitt, Provisional Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Karl Lohmann, Column 618/619.
Extract from the "Legal Review" [Juristiche Rundschau],
* * *
3. The decision.
"Once again the Court had to decide on the question of whether political measures could be subject to the review of the ordinary courts. * * * The case in question concerned the official performance of his duty by the official of the NSDAP * * *
The principle of the importance and the mission of the Party and its 'sovereign functionaries' cannot be overlooked. Therefore, the plaintiff should have been denied the right to be in court."
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