In this essay I am going to defend the position that the Nazis did in fact, have laws. I am going to draw from Hart’s positivism and his stance on the separation of law and morals to explain why the Nazis had laws, and defend it against an objection from Fuller. During WWII, the Nazis laid down a set of laws that allowed them to commit atrocious crimes. They twisted the meanings of the laws to favor their rule, through violence and persecution. There were citizens at the time who took advantage of the laws to punish those they held grudges against by reporting supposedly illegal acts that their rivals had committed to the Nazi authorities. One may argue that because it was the law at the time, these citizens were fully justified within the
