reat legal ends: the reestablishment and the protection
of the farmer class and the securing of its land for the
farmer family.

3. Work: The nation's work as a basic national value is
grounded on the leading concept of "work of the hands and of
the head" within and for the community of the people and the
elevation of work to the only criterion for the value of an
individual within the community. In place of the idea of
class warfare, National Socialism had to establish the
national community legally; in place of the defamation of
work and its degradation to an object of barter, National
Socialism had to raise it to an ethical duty and the right
to work had to become the most clearly defined personal
right of the individual. The concept of the honor of work
had to be established as the basic concept of the national
honor.

4. The Reich: With the securing of the three basic values of
race, soil, and work arises the National Socialist Reich.

The infusion of foreign cultural and legal influences in
Germany was a consequence of the weakening of the central
authority of the German Reich since the Middle Ages. The
creation and insuring of a strong central authority in
contrast to the disorganized, federalistic system of the
Weimar Republic became one of the principal lines of
National Socialist legal policy. In consequence of the
National Socialist revolution, the Reich took on the legal
form of a totalitarian state and received a supreme and
completely authoritative lawgiver in the person of the
Fuehrer. The principle of a division of power could no longer
maintain itself: The formulation, the interpretation, and
the execution of the law are all performed by the Fuehrer
himself or under his authority.

5. Honor: The fifth great value of the nation is its honor.
The honor of the people, the Reich, the party, the Fuehrer,
and the individual citizen are all regarded as goods to be
protected by law. The basis of national honor is loyalty.
National Socialist criminal law is therefore essentially
organized as a system of punishment for breaches of faith.
Every crime and offense against the community is a breach of
faith which must result in loss of honor.[95]

_2. Foreign Policy_

The close connection between the internal poli