1. G. C. Guins Soviet Law and Soviet Society (The Hague, 1954), p. 29.
2. A. Koenen Der Fall Carl Schmitt; sein Aufstieg zum ‘Kronjuristen des Dritten Retches’ (Darmstadt, 1995), p. 612.
3. J. Stalin Problems of Leninism (Moscow, 1947), pp. 569–78, ‘Dialectical and Historical Materialism’, September 1938; see too E. Kamenka ‘Soviet Philosophy 1917–1967’, in A. Smirenko (ed.) Social Thought in the Soviet Union (Chicago, 1969), p. 53. Primers on dialectical materialism were issued in printruns of 250,000 to 500,000.
4. N. Harding Leninism (London, 1996), p. 226.
5. R. T. de George Patterns of Soviet Thought (New York, 1966), pp. 171–2.
6. G. Wetter Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union (New York, 1958), pp. 219–20.
7. A. Hitler Mein Kampf, ed. D. C. Watt (London, 1968), p. 258; W. Maser (ed.) Hitler’s Letters and Notes (New York, 1977), p. 280; D. Gasman The Scientifi c Origins of National Socialism (London, 1971), pp. 47–9.
8. Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 260; Maser, Hitler’s Letters and Notes, p. 280.
9. E. Jäckel Hitler’s World View: a Blueprint for Power (Middleton, Conn., 1981), p. 94.
10. A. Hitler The Secret Book, ed. T. Taylor (New York, 1961), p. 6; see too E. Fraenkel The Dual State. A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship (New York, 1941), pp. 108–9, citing Hans Gerber’s view that National Socialist political thought was ‘existential and biological, its data being the primal unique life process’.
11. Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 268–9.
12. Stalin, Problems of Leninism, p. 578; Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 262.
13. P. van Paassen Visions Rise and Change (New York, 1955), pp. 100–106.
14. J. Bergman The Image of Jesus in the Russian Revolutionary Movement. The Case of Russian Marxism’, International Review of Social History, 25 (1990), p. 226.
15. P. J. Duncan Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After (London, 2000), pp. 51–2; D. G. Rowley Millenarian Bolshevism, 1900–1920 (New York, 1987), pp. 355–72; W. B. Hubbard ‘Godless Communists’: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia 1917–1932 (Dekalb, Ill., 2000), pp. 30–35.
16. V. Lenin Collected Works (45 vols., Moscow, 1963), vol. xxxv, p. 121, letter to Maxim Gorky, 13 or 14 November 1913, pp. 127–8, letter to Maxim Gorky, November 1913. See too D. V. Pospielovsky A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies: Vol I: A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice (London, 1987), pp. 1–17.
17. Hubbard, ‘Godless Communists’, p. 47.
18. M. A. Meersoix The Political Philosophy of the Russian Orthodox Episcopate in the Soviet Period’, in G. Hosking (ed.) Church, Nation and State in Russia and Ukraine (London, 1991), p. 217.
19. van Paassen, Visions Rise and Change, p. 63; E. Trubetskoy ‘The Bolshevist Utopia and the Religious Movement in Russia’, in M. Bohachevsky-Chomiak and B. G. Rosenthal (eds) A Revolution of the Spirit: Crisis of Values in Russia 1890–1918 (Newtonville, Mass., 1982.), pp. 331–2, 336–8.
20. M. Bourdeaux Opium of the People: the Christian Religion in the USSR (London, 1965), p. 51; Hubbard, ‘Godless Communists’, pp. 58–9; J. S. Curtiss The Russian Church and the Soviet State (Gloucester, Mass., 1965), pp. 200–203; A. J. Klinghoffer Red Apocalypse: the Religious Evolution of Soviet Communism (Lanham, Md, 1996), pp. 113–14.
21. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: I, pp. 30–34.
22. Hubbard, ‘Godless Communists’, pp. 62–3; D. Peris Storming the Heavens: the Soviet League of the Militant Godless (Ithaca, NY, 1998), pp. 48–9.
23. D. V. Pospielovsky A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Anti-Religious Policies, Vol II: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions (London, 1988), p. 19; C. de Grunwald God and the Soviets (London, 1961), pp. 46–7, 79.
24. de Grunwald, God and the Soviets, pp. 73–9; F. Corley (ed.) Religion in the Soviet Union (New York, 1996), p. 119, instructions from Roslavl District Committee to Party offi cials and the League of the Militant Godless, 15 April 1937.
25. Bergman, The Image of Jesus’, pp. 240–42.
26. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, pp. 48–9.
27. M. Spinka The Church in Soviet Russia (Oxford, 1956), p. 38.
28. Bourdeaux, Opium of the People, p. 54; G. L. Freeze ‘Counter-reformation in Russian Orthodoxy: Popular Response to Religious Innovation, 1922–1925’, Slavic Review, 54 (1995), pp. 305–39.
29. Spinka, Church in Soviet Russia, pp. 62–6; Bourdeaux, Opium of the People, p. 54.
30. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: I, p. 51.
31. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, p. 34.
32. W. H. Chamberlin Soviet Russia: a Living Record and a History (Boston, 1938), p. 318; Pospielovskyj Marxist-Leninist Atheism: J, pp. 44–5.
33. de Grunwald, God and the Soviets, p. 54; Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, p. 67.
34. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, pp. 66–8.
35. Curtiss, The Russian Church, pp. 228–9.
36. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: I, pp. 61–4; Curtiss, The Russian Church, p. 232.
37. A. Luukkanen The Religious Policy of the Stalinist State (Helsinki, 1997), pp. 53–4; Corley, Religion in the Soviet Union, p.
118. Other subjects included ‘The tale of christ and other dying and allegedly risen gods’, ‘Religion and the church in the service of international fascism’; and so on.
38. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: I, p. 55; Curtiss, The Russian Church, pp. 212, 253; see too G. Young Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village (University Park, Pa., 1997).
39. van Paassen, Visions Rise and Change, pp. 44–5, 72–3.
40. Peris, Storming the Heavens, p. 224 for the census result. Out of 98,410,000 census returns, 42,243,000 defi ned themselves as atheists. On bishops see Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, pp. 67–8.
41. The Moscow Patriarchate The Truth about Religion in Russia (London, 1944); Spinka, Church in Soviet Russia, pp.82–6; S. M. Miner Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2003), pp. 96–8.
42. Bourdeaux, Opium of the People, p. 234; Miner, Stalin’s Holy War, p. 99.
43. Pospielovsky, Marxist-Leninist Atheism: II, p. 96; I, p. 71; Peris, Storming the Heavens, p. 222.
44. B. R. Bociorkiw ‘Religion and Atheism in Soviet Society’, in R. H. Marshall (ed.) Aspects of Religion in the Soviet Union 1917–1967 (Chicago, 1971), pp. 45–6.
45. van Paassen, Visions Rise and Change, p. 60; Duncan, Russian Messianism, p. 58.
46. S. Roberts The House that Hitler Built (London, 1938), p. 268; M. Bendiscioli The New Racial Paganism (London, 1939), p. 22.
47. Meerson, ‘Russian Orthodox Episcopate’, p. 218.
48. P. F. Douglas God Among the Germans (Philadelphia, 1935), pp. 278–9.
49. K. Scholder A Requiem for Hitler and Other New Perspectives on the German Church Struggle (Philadelphia, 1989), pp. 54–5; Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 19–21.
50. A. Kolnai The War Against the West (London, 1938), pp. 247, 267: ‘no brave man wants another life’, claimed one German theologian.
51. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 41–2.
52. Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 72–4; W. Künneth and H. Schreiner (eds) Die Nation vor Gott (Berlin, 1937), pp. 403–22.
53. Kolnai, War Against the West, pp. 233–4; Douglas, God Among the Germans, p. 74.
54. Künneth and Streiner, Nation vor Gott, pp. 444 ff; Kolnai, War Against the West, p. 283; Douglas, God Among the Germans, p. 58.
55. K. Scholder ‘Die evangelische Kirche in der Sicht der nationalsozialistischen Führung’, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16
(1968), p. 18–19; Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 87–91; on Hauer see Kolnai, War Against the West, p. 283.
56. H. Trevor-Roper (ed.) Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944 (London, 1984), p. 191, 8–9 January 1942.
57. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 59, 14 October 1941; p. 125, 11 November 1941.
58. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 314, 8 February 1942: ‘The evil that’s gnawing our vitals is our priests, of both creeds.’
59. Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 2–3; Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, pp. 60–61, 14 October 1941; on Hitler’s religiosity see too H. Buchheim Glaubenskrise im Dritten Reich: Drei Kapitel nationalsozialistischer Religionspolitik (Stuttgart, 1953), pp. 9–16.
60. Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 14–17; Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 59; D. Gasman The Scientifi c Origins of National Socialism (London, 1971), pp. 162–9.
61. Roberts, House that Hitler Built, p. 270; on Rosenberg see Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 30 ff.
62. M. Burleigh The Third Reich: a New History (London, 2000), p. 253; Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 419–20.
63. Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 212–13, 217; V. Barnett For the Soul ofthe People: ProtestantProtest againstHitler(Oxford, 1992), pp. 32–4.
64. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 101–2; Barnett, Soul of the People, pp. 34–5.
65. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 77–9, 90–92, 103.
66. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, p. 93.
67. Text in P. Matheson (ed.) The Third Reich and the Christian Churches (Edinburgh, 1981), pp. 39–40, speech by Dr Krause, 13 November 1933; Douglas, God Among the Germans, pp. 81–4.
68. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 7, 11–12 July 1941; on Kerrl see Scholder, ‘Die evangelische Kirche’, pp. 26–8.
69. Douglas, God Among the Germans, p. 26.
70. Buchheim, Glaubenskrise im Dritten Reich, p. 16.
71. Bendiscioli, New Racial Paganism, pp. 3, 32.
72. Douglas, God Among the Germans, p. 21.
73. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 110–11.
74. Bendiscioli, New Racial Paganism, pp. 67–85; Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, p. 112; Matheson, Third Reich and the Christian Churches, pp. 67–71, ‘With Burning Concern’, 14 March 1937. There was no room, the encyclical ran, ‘for an ersatz or substitute religion based on arbitrary revelations, which some contemporary advocates wish to derive from the so-called myth of blood and race’.
75. J. Conway The Nazi Persecution of the Churches (London, 1968), pp. 298–9. The fi gure is an estimate only. The exact number is not known.
76. Scholder, ‘Die evangelische Kirche’, pp. 23–4.
77. Barnett, Soul of the People, pp. 43–4.
78. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 163–6.
79. Barnett, Soul of the People, pp. 87, 93.
80. F. Reck-Malleczewen Diary of a Man in Despair (London, 1995), p. 22.
81. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 6, 11–12 July 1941; p. 343, 27 February 1942.
82. S. A. Golunskii and M. S. Strogovich ‘The Theory of the State and the Law’, in J. Hazard (ed.) Soviet Legal Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), pp. 366–77; D. Hoffmann Stalinist Values: the Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity 1917–1941 (Ithaca, NY, 2003), pp. 58–9.
83. Guins, Soviet Law and Soviet Society, p. 27.
84. M. Stolleis Public Law in Germany 1880–1914 (Oxford, 2001), pp. 422–3, 430–31; I. Müller Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich (London, 1991), p. 71.
85. Fraenkel, Dual State, p. 109. See too J. W. Bendersky Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich (Princeton, NJ, 1983), pp. 35, 87;
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86. J. W. Jones The Nazi Concept of Law (Oxford, 1939), p. 19.
87. R. Conquest (ed.) Justice and the Legal System in the USSR (London, 1968), p. 13; J. Hazard, I. Shapiro and P. B. Maggs (eds) The Soviet Legal System (New York, 1969), pp. 5–6; P. Beirne and R. Sharlet ‘Toward a General Theory of Law and Marxism: E. B. Pashukanis’, in P. Beirne (ed.) Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917–1938 (New York, 1990), pp. 23–4.
88. Conquest, Justice and the Legal System, p. 13; R. Sharlet, P. B. Maggs and P. Beirne ‘P. I. Stuchka and Soviet Law’, in Beirne, Revolution in Law, pp. 49–50. See too J. Burbank ‘Lenin and the Law in Revolutionary Russia’, Slavic Review, 54 (1995), pp. 23–44.
89. Beirne and Sharlet, ‘Toward a General Theory’, p. 36.
90. P. H. Solomon Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 20–24, 34–8. By 1928 100 per cent of procurators were party members, and 85 per cent of judges in people’s courts.
91. Hazard et aL, Soviet Legal System, p. 6.
92. D. Pfaff Die Entwicklung der sowjetischen Rechtslehre (Cologne, 1968), pp. 115–21; Beirne and Sharlet, Toward a General Theory’, pp. 34, 39.
93. Guins, Soviet Law and Soviet Society, p. 31.
94. R. Sharlet and P. Beirne ‘In Search of Vyshinsky: the Paradox of Law and Terror’, in Beirne, Revolution in Law, pp. 150–51; Guins, Soviet Law and Soviet Society, pp. 30–31.
95. Sharlet and Beirne, ‘In Search of Vyshinsky’, pp. 138–40.
96. Pfaff, sowjetischen Rechtslehre, p. 115.
97. Pfaff, sowjetischen Rechtslehre, p. 118; see too I. P. Trainin The Relationship between State and Law’, 1945 in Hazard, Soviet Legal Philosophy, pp. 444–5, 446–8.
98. Z. L. Zile (ed.) Ideas and Forces in Soviet Legal History: a Reader on the Soviet State and the Law (Oxford, 1992), p. 277; E. Huskey ‘Vyshinsky, Krylenko, and Soviet Penal Policies in the 1930s’, in Beirne, Revolution in Law, pp. 184–6; P. H. Solomon The Bureaucratization of Criminal Justice under Stalin’, in P. H. Solomon (ed.) Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864–1996 (New York, 1997), pp. 229–32.
99. Bender sky, Carl Schmitt, p. 35.
100. Koenen Der Fall Carl Schmitt, p. 609; H. Müller-Dietz Recht im Nationalsozialismus (Baden-Baden, 2000), p. 5; G. Yieberg Justiz in nationalsozialistischen Deutschland (Bundesministerium der Justiz, Cologne, 1984), pp. 28–9.
101. Rüthers, Carl Schmitt im Dritten Reich, p. 60.
102. Müller, Hitlers Justice, p. 76.
103. Roberts, House that Hitler Built, p. 285; Müller, Hitler’s Justice, p. 72; D. Majer Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems (Stuttgart, 1987), p. 104; Koenen, Der Fall Carl Schmitt, p. 608.
104. On Schmitt see Bendersky, Carl Schmitt, pp. 38–9, 87–8; R. Cristi Carl Schmitt and authoritarian liberalism (Cardiff, 1998), pp. 5–15. Fora general biography D. Blasius Carl Schmitt: Freussischer Staatsrat im Hitlers Reich (Göttingen, 2001).
105. Rüthers, Carl Schmitt im Dritten Reich, p. 53.
106. Koenen, Der Fall Carl Schmitt, p. 608; Müller, Hitler’s Justice, p. 71.
107. Rüthers, Carl Schmitt im Dritten Reich, pp. 59–66; Cristi, Carl Schmitt, pp. 12–15.
108. Rüthers, Carl Schmitt im Dritten Reich, pp. 53–5; Koenen, Der Fall Carl Schmitt, p. 601.
109. E. Rabofsky and G. Oberkofl er Verborgene Wurzeln der NS-Justiz: Strafrechtliche Rüstung für zwei Weltkriegen (Vienna,
1985), p. 97.
110. Müller, Hitler’s Justice, pp. 68–9; Rabofsky and Oberkofl er, Verborgene Wurzeln, pp. 83–4.
111. Müller, Hitler’s Justice, pp. 60–65.
112. Majer, Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems, p. 103.
113. Majer, Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems, pp. 101–2; Fraenkel, Dual State, pp. 40, 107–12.
114. Majer, Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems, p. 103.
115. Roberts, House that Hitler Built, p. 286.
116. Koenen, Der Fall Carl Schmitt, p. 612. The attribution was made by Göring in July 1934.
117. Hazard, Soviet Legal Philosophy, p. 370.
118. Fieberg, Justiz im ns Deutschland, p. 28.
119. Conquest, Justice and the Legal System, p. 17.
120. Majer, Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems, p. 104.
121. Rabofsky and Oberkofl er, Verborgene Wurzeln, pp. 96–7; Müller, Hitler’s Justice, pp. 76–7.
122. Zile, Ideas and Forces, pp. 265–6, decree ‘On Protecting and Strengthening Public (Socialist) Property’, 7 August 1932.
123. Zile, Ideas and Forces, pp. 297–8, decree ‘On Supplementing the Statute on Crimes Against the State… with Articles Covering Treason’.
124. Hazard et al., Soviet Legal System, pp. 5–6; E. Ginzburg Into the Whirlwind (London, 1967), p. 131.
125. Rabofsky and Oberkofl er, Verborgene Wurzeln, pp. 85–6; Müller, Hitler’s Justice, p. 74.
126. Pfaff, sowjetischen Rechtslehre, p. 117.
127. Royal Institute of International Affairs Nationalism (London, 1939), p. 72.
128. Wetter, Dialectical Materialism, p. 176.
129. Guins, Soviet Law and Soviet Society, p. 32.
130. Scholder, Requiem for Hitler, pp. 47–8.
131. Kolnai, War Against the West, pp. 55–6.
132. Bendersky, Carl Schmitt, pp. 38–9; Müller, Hitler’s Justice, p. 72.
133. Kolnai, War Against the West, p. 289.
134. G. Neesse Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Stuttgart, 1935), p. 10.
135. Majer, Grundlagen des nationalsozialistischen Rechtssystems, p. 103.
136. Wetter, Dialectical Materialism, p. 268.
137. Douglas, God among the Germans, p. 25.
138. V. Kravchenko I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Offi cial (London, 1947), p. 275.
139. de George, Soviet Ethics and Morality, p. 83.
140. Guins, Soviet Law and Soviet Society, p. 30.
141. Kolnai, War Against the West, pp. 291, 293–4; on the ideal of hardness see J. Hoberman ‘Primacy of Performance: Superman not Superathlete’, in J. A. Mangan (ed.) Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon – Aryan Fascism (London, 1999), pp. 78–9.
142. Imperial War Museum, London, FO 645, Box 157, testimony of Rudolf Höss taken at Nuremberg, 5 April 1946, p. 11.
143. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 304; Pfaff, sowjetischen Rechtslehre, p. 111.