One judge would later say that, ideally, Hitler would settle all legal cases himself; but since he couldn’t, it was up to judges to enforce apply their understanding of Hitler’s will to the cases before them. Law, as it had been known, was no longer decisive in legal proceedings. Judges, now more than ever, were working toward the Fuehrer.
Judicial independence, once the ideal of the German state, nearly vanished. By the end of the thirties, Justice Minister Guertner, who’d once resisted some of Hitler’s more violent decrees, fired a judge who questioned the legal basis of the euthanasia program. He said to him “If you cannot recognise the will of the Führer as a source of law, then you cannot remain a judge.” https://jimsnowden.com/2013/11/06/the-nazi-judiciary/