This is a minor issue, but was the Holocaust legal in Germany? My understanding was that the concentration camps were legal, but the murders were extrajudicial.
The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.
This is a minor issue, but was the Holocaust legal in Germany? My understanding was that the concentration camps were legal, but the murders were extrajudicial.
I would appreciate correction and more info.
The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.
segregation and slavery were explicitly legal, the holocaust is the odd one out
That’s why the us has never done anything wrong and germany is evil /s