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itler came to power by per-
fectly legal means," Andrew I.
Port reminded a rapt audi-
ence of Oakland County judges, com-
missioners, high school students,
attorneys and other community mem-
bers at the first-ever Holocaust
Remembrance Day program May 5 at
the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners Auditorium in the
courthouse complex in Pontiac.
The Wayne State University assistant
history professor's talk, "Examining
the Rule of Law: Lessons from the
Holocaust for America Today," was
the highlight of a program organized
by Oakland County Circuit Court
Judge Edward Sosnick and sponsored
by the county circuit and probate
courts.
Following a welcome by Circuit
Court Chief Judge Wendy Potts, Judge
Sosnick introduced a moving
PowerPoint presentation by encourag-
ing the participants not to think of six
million deaths but to "think of the
slaughter of one man, woman and
child six million times." County
Commissioner Helaine Zack of
Huntington Woods then read a
proclamation from the commission.
Port began his talk by tackling the
question of who voted for Hitler, say=
ing that it is not all that difficult to
understand why Germans increasingly
turned to Hider, considering the
growing disillusionment with the
mainstream political parties post-
World War I as well as the harsh terms
of the Versailles Treaty — which
placed total blame on Germany,
caused economic distress and bitter
attacks on Jews and Marxists.
When Reich President Paul von
Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chan-
cellor in 1933, the Weimar govern-
ment "believed they could use the
Nazi Party to its own ends," said Pori.
But, within a year, "Hitler turned the
tables."
After the Reichstag fire in February
1933, which was blamed on commu-

nists, Article 48 of the Weimar
Constitution was invoked. It allowed
the Reich president to "take such
measures as are necessary to restore
public safety and order," including use
of the army and temporarily suspend-
ing, either partially or wholly, the
Fundamental Rights of citizens.
In March 1933, the German
Parliament passed the so-called
"Enabling Act," which, according to
Port, "effectively suspended the consti-
tution and gave the Nazis free rein to
carry out their policies. It effectively
made Adolph Hitler the undisputed
dictator of Germany.
"The law had one paramount pur-
pose, to facilitate the aims of the
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regime," explained Port, reviewing the
Nazi Civil Service Act of April 1933,
which provided that all civil servants
must be trustworthy as defined by
Nazi standards and also must meet the
Nazi racial requirements.
More than 600 judges and "non-
Aryan" lawyers, teachers and others
were sacked. Port also spoke about the
Nuremburg Laws of September 1935
that forbade marriage and sexual rela-
tions between Jews and Aryans and
was strictly enforced, pointing out
"there is no record of an organized
judicial group opposing the Nazi
regime.
"There was no law, no legal statute
that required the murder of Jews,"
Port concluded. "That road had been
built by hate and paved by indiffer-
ence."

Need For Vigilance

Judith Gracey, president of the
Oakland County Bar Association,
spoke of the legal support given to
American slavery, the "Jim Crow" laws
that imposed racial segregation as well
as Brown v. Board of Education that
dismantled the basis of legal segrega-
tion in schools and other public insti-
tutions.
Judge Sosnick introduced a clip
from the film Judgment at Nuremburg
highlighting actor Spencer Tracy's
statement as presiding judge to uphold