Raul Hilberg: "Como o regime nazista se desenvolveu ao longo dos anos,...

"Como o regime nazista se desenvolveu ao longo dos anos, toda a estrutura da decisão - foi alterado. No dia, havia leis. Então havia decretos implementando leis. Então uma lei foi feita dizendo: "Não haverá leis". Então houve ordens e diretivas que foram escritas, mas ainda publicadas em gazettes ministeriais. Então houve governo por anúncio; As encomendas apareceram em jornais. Depois, houve as ordens quietas, as ordens que não foram publicadas, que estavam dentro da burocracia, que eram orais. E finalmente, não havia pedidos. Todo mundo sabia o que ele tinha que fazer."

--- Raul Hilberg

Versão em inglês

As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.