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Morgen’s experience with Fegelein, Fassbender, and Sauberzweig turned him into a specialist in corruption, a category of crime whose name also stands for a deficiency of moral character.1 These particular criminals exemplified corruption in both senses of the word. By specializing in corruption as a crime that manifests bad character, Morgen was initially able to combine his roles as judge and as upholder of moral virtue in the SS. This combination of roles was facilitated by National Socialist legal theory.
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As the theorist Edmund Mezger (1938) explained, “The sole justification of penalty is that it is an indispensable means to sustain the volks-community,”
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© 2015 Herlinde Pauer-Studer and J. David Velleman
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Pauer-Studer, H., Velleman, J.D. (2015). The Criminal Character. In: Konrad Morgen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496959_5
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