La ley de la sangre

History has never seen a type of violence like that unleashed by the Nazis, both in Germany and abroad, after they came to power in 1933: How does a society, cultured, homeland of philosophers, musicians, Nobel laureates..., was she attracted and supported such a regime of horror? There are cultural and historical reasons, but there were also legal regulations, methods of action and, above all, their dissemination, little studied until now, which were put into practice by the different social groups. Some foundations that are synthesized in the myth of the period in which the Nordic race lived happily in harmony with nature, denaturalization and acculturation that was produced by the contagion of foreign cultures, specifically the Judeo-Christian and Roman law. The solution was therefore to return to the "law of nature", to the "law of blood". Jurists, doctors, historians, philosophers, scientists, journalists, artists of all kinds, filmmakers..., elaborated and disseminated the theories that made race the foundation of law, and with "the law of blood" and "nature. "They justified everything: procreation, extermination and their domination of the world. His way of acting like Nazis. In "The Law of Blood", Johann Chapoutot sheds a new and original light on the Nazi phenomenon.