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Friedrich Berber was an international legal advisor to the Nazi Party's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. He became Director of the Hamburg Institute of Foreign policy that was founded by Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy who was of Jewish descent from the prominent Mendelssohn family and had himself left Germany in 1934.

Berber promulgated in 1939 his own views about the international law that it should no longer be a 'playground for internationalist and pacifist ideologies". Further he expounded the goals to 'trace the political, historical and ideology roots of Western European and Anglo-Saxon international law and unmask them, supply German foreign policy, in its fight for the freedom and greatness of the German people, with international-law weapons, and to find new forms, new vessels for new political thoughts and creations..."

He envisioned a "genuine international legal order that is no longer a summation of more or less random and formal rules behind which any moral and dishonourable action can be concealed but is above all cut to suit owners with their gluttonous needs, but instead a system of genuine law of peoples that consistutes an order for the community of free peoples, with equal rights, based on justice and located in the living stream of history".


 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Darker_Legacies_of_Law_in_Europe/VvTMNqO3NJEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=friedrich%20berber