Do We Have a Tradition That Predates the Nazi Regime?

I think I was trying to give something that maybe more Dworkin would be sympathetic with, that there are moral principles that become the foundation of legal principles. And you could make an argument that over time, traditions are binding in a stronger way than just being able to,. We're starting society from scratch. But that kind of conservatism goes both ways, right? So you're pointing to the case of the Nazi regime that there was a principle of freedom or other sorts of things that predated the Nazi regime and that we can appeal to that as saying, well, our tradition tells us that.