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"Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations, but he was not a member of the Nazi Party or of the SA. He is reputed to have rejected Nazi ideology and to have kept his distance from the Nazis. There was opposition from Nazi officials to his proposed appointment, in 1941, as professor of law at the University of Frankfurt, but the academics pushed through his candidacy, and he soon advanced to become dean of the faculty"
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@bouleusis We can't verify the authenticity of the photo, but it might be authentic — he was a citizen after all and, being a professor, he was in the system to a certain degree, hard to avoid that. He might have opposed Nazi ideology and refused to be in the party despite that, it's not contradictory. Lumping a person like that together with the rest just makes the rest looks less credible — that was my point, sorry for not making it clear enough.
@m0xee In any case, we could surely apply to him what Hanna Arendt said about the banality of evil in her famous essay "Eichmann in Jerusalem".
@m0xee Yes, I have read it on Wikipedia. However, in the photo he appears in a Nazi uniform...