Nazi law claimed retroactive global jurisdiction over all peoples

Evidence

There was hardly a more effective way of publicizing the Nazi claim to world rule than punishing as high treason every utterance or action against the Third Reich, no matter when, where, or by whom it had been made. Nazi law treated the whole world as falling potentially under its jurisdiction, so that the occupying army was no longer an instrument of conquest that carried with it the new law of the conqueror, but an executive organ which enforced a law which already supposedly existed for everyone. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 932

Categorization

• XREF: The idea of a sovereign claiming universal jurisdiction anticipates contemporary discussions of extraterritorial law enforcement and regime-criminalization — relevant to how states project power through legal universality. — connects to: Nazi law reversed the presumption of rights to presume universal rightlessness at birth.; The Nazi state distributed the sovereign power to kill across all citizens; Nazi rule inverted reason so that rationality demanded moral consent to crime — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 583
• SEED: An essay angle: how the claim of universal legal jurisdiction flips conquest from bringing law into a territory to merely enforcing a law that already purportedly applied — a distinction with resonance for extraterritorial counterterrorism law.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 932

Broader Connections

• Nazi law reversed the presumption of rights to presume universal rightlessness at birth. #expands (0.85)
• The Nazi state distributed the sovereign power to kill across all citizens #corroborates (0.75)
• Nazi rule inverted reason so that rationality demanded moral consent to crime #expands (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 583