From page 191 of Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography:
Schmitt defines the state as the ‘political unity’ of a people and interprets the ‘positive’ constitution as the ‘complete decision over the form and type of the political unity.’ Every people with a political will decides for itself about its ‘form of existence’ and gives itself a legal constitution. A people with a political will (to the self assertion of its political unity) Schmitt calls a ‘nation.’ A nation makes a ‘state.’ This concept of the constitution aims at the ‘homogeneous’ national state.
Pg. 218: “I also believe that the Jews ‘of the tribe’ are not liberal; but their concrete situation among the other peoples forces them nevertheless to declares the ideas of 1789 as sacrosanct. Any minority must insist on the sanctity of liberal principles.”
Pg. 224 reveals Carl Schmitt had an affection for the Luke Fords of the world: “Maybe some quick and flexible individuals will succeed in performing the trick of preserving their freedom between the many powerful groups, the way one jumps from one ice floe to the next.”
Pg. 396: “There is no doubt that Schmitt considered genocide and the Holocaust as crimes. But he would remain silent about it through his life.”
411: “Thus, it was personal outrage over Schmitt’s turn to National Socialism which led to his detainment. It was his Jewish acquaintances from the Weimar period who made sure that Schmitt was considered and treated as a perpetrator after 1945.”
