Counsel for the defence saw themselves as agents of the state & routinely turned against their clients in pursuit of what they saw as State interests.
That’s what happens when you don’t have ‘activist lawyers’.
See:
un.org/en/holocaustre…
‘If the legal profession had insisted from day one of the Third Reich on obedience to justice, fairness, due process and the rule of law, the Nazi project could have been stopped before it developed a full head of steam’ &
That apples to victims of the holocaust and potentially to asylum seekers today. ‘Lawyer activists are needed to prevent repetition’