. Individualism was to be destroyed and replaced with a solid value system of communitarism strictly subsumed under the Nazi party. This nihilist perspective made the concentration camps an institutional pillar of Nazi doctrine, according to these scholars. Murder and terror conducted by the Nazi party would be used wantonly and without regard to guilt or innocence for the purpose of demonstrating that the individual has no rights, no dignity, and no life on his or her own. Under this scheme of Nazi nihilism, the reduction of human beings was not a by-product of party-organized terror and murder; rather, party-organized terror and murder was seen as a by-product of the total absence of individual rights and dignity. Nazi party domination was total.
Given this viewpoint by contemporary scholars of Nazi doctrine, it is a logical step to carry over such an absolutist philosophy to the organization of law and industry in Nazi Germany. The institutional doctrine of National Socialism, according to these scholars, is every bit as nihilistic. The Nazi party is to s
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