How did a country with judges, courts, and law schools turn its legal system into a machine for persecution? This film traces the transformation of Germany's courts and legal profession under the Nazi regime, showing how statutes, judicial appointments, and legal education were reshaped to serve the party rather than restrain it. It follows the steady erosion of judicial independence, the purge of Jewish and politically unreliable lawyers and judges, and the drafting of race laws like the Nuremberg Laws that gave persecution the appearance of legality. Archival documents, courtroom records, and period footage illustrate how ordinary legal procedure, briefs, hearings, appeals, became instruments of state terror rather than checks on it. The film treats the legal profession's complicity as its central question, asking how so many lawyers and judges rationalized their participation. It closes on the postwar reckoning, when former Nazi jurists faced trial for turning law itself into a weapon.