Nazi judicial butcher Roland Freisler praised as the “primitive” and “political” character of American law—its willingness to ignore the demands of science and discard inherited principles of law such the presumption of innocence. Freisler perceived the United States as a place where the law served the will of the people, unfettered by juristic quibbles. If the people determined that some races were to be disfavored, the courts interposed no obstacle, and he demanded something similar for Nazi Germany.
