Nazi legal doctrine deliberately left the crime of state-endangerment undefined and open-ended.

Evidence

A good example of the Nazi version of the possible crime can be found in Hans Frank, op. at.: “A complete catalogue of attempts ‘dangerous to the State’ can never be drawn up because it can never be foreseen what may endanger the leadership and the people some time in the future.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2795

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the juridical principle that makes retrospective accusation possible: crimes against the state cannot be enumerated in advance because the state’s future dangers are unknowable.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia field’s understanding of how states criminalize populations preemptively — arbitrary accusation as a political technology. — connects to: Nazi Germany turned criminal law from an independent state organ into an administrative bureaucracy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 972
• DEEPTHINKING: The open-ended definition of ‘state-endangering’ crime is the legal mechanism that converts ideology into arbitrary mass prosecution — a powerful paradigm for how legal vagueness serves state power.