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To establish criminal responsibility in connection with the persecution it was sufficient to show that the measures taken against the Christian Churches were an integral part of the National Socialist scheme of world conquest.  From the start, the report argues that, unlike other civil liberty provisions, the key articles of the pre-Nazi [[Weimar constitution]], Articles, 135-140 and 149, <ref>[http://www.zum.de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php#Third%20Chapter%20:%20Religion%20and%20Religious%20Communities Weimar Constitution-Religion and Religious Communities]</ref>, "were never formally abrogated by the National Socialist regime, … were left untouched and still remain theoretically in force" and further "respect for the principle of religious freedom", continued to be reiterated in various official policy statements and in various "enactments of the National Socialist state".  "To demonstrate the illegality of specific acts of persecution, it is sufficient to show that they were in violation of these legal provisions."  In other words, the report argues that because the persistence of legal norms "[[immanent]]" to the German tradition of criminal law, there was no need to resort to ''ex post facto'' laws.

To establish criminal responsibility in connection with the persecution it was sufficient to show that the measures taken against the Christian Churches were an integral part of the National Socialist scheme of world conquest.  From the start, the report argues that, unlike other civil liberty provisions, the key articles of the pre-Nazi [[Weimar constitution]], Articles, 135-140 and 149, <ref>[http://www.zum.de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php#Third%20Chapter%20:%20Religion%20and%20Religious%20Communities Weimar Constitution-Religion and Religious Communities]</ref>, "were never formally abrogated by the National Socialist regime, … were left untouched and still remain theoretically in force" and further "respect for the principle of religious freedom", continued to be reiterated in various official policy statements and in various "enactments of the National Socialist state".  "To demonstrate the illegality of specific acts of persecution, it is sufficient to show that they were in violation of these legal provisions."  In other words, the report argues that because the persistence of legal norms "[[immanent]]" to the German tradition of criminal law, there was no need to resort to ''ex post facto'' laws.

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