Hitler refused to codify Nazi party law to prevent any legal order

Evidence

For example, such an attempt to circumscribe the separate responsibilities and to counter the “anarchy of authority” was made by Hans Frank in Recht und Verwaltung, 1939, and again in an address titled Technik des Statues, in 1941. He expressed the opinion that “legal guarantees” were not the “prerogative of liberal systems of government” and that the administration should continue to be governed, as before, by the laws of the Reich, which now were inspired and guided by the program of the National Socialist party. It was precisely because he wanted to prevent such a new legal order at any price that Hitler never acknowledged the program of the Nazi party. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2729

Categorization

• XREF: Doctrine of totalitarian lawlessness as permanent-legal-basis for rule — connects to the biopolitics/necropolitics and bureaucratic-rationality building blocks in the reader’s scaffolding list.