The Law in Nazi Germany : : Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice /

The Law in Nazi Germany : : Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice / / ed. by Alan E. Steinweis, Robert D. Rachlin.

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While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Gross, Raphael,
Jarausch, Konrad H.,
Jasch, Hans-Christian,
Ledford, Kenneth F.,
Morris, Douglas G.,
Rachlin, Robert D.,
Reicher, Harry,
Steinweis, Alan E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Rachlin, Robert D.,
Steinweis, Alan E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Law in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
  • 1. The Conundrum of Complicity: German Professionals and the Final Solution
  • 2. Civil Service Lawyers and the Holocaust: The Case of Wilhelm Stuckart
  • 3. Roland Freisler and the Volksgerichtshof: The Court as an Instrument of Terror
  • 4. Guilt, Shame, Anger, Indignation: Nazi Law and Nazi Morals
  • 5. Discrimination, Degradation, Defiance: Jewish Lawyers under Nazism
  • 6. Evading Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity: Murderous Lawyers at Nuremberg
  • 7. Judging German Judges in the Third Reich: Excusing and Confronting the Past
  • Appendixes
  • A. Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, 11 August 1919
  • B. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State (Reichstag Fire Decree), 28 February 1933
  • C. Law to Remove the Distress of the People and the State (The Enabling Act), 23 March 1933
  • D. Hitler’s Call for a Nazi Lawyers’ League, 12 September 1928
  • E. Circular No. 8/1938 from Dr. Karl Leitmeyer, League of National Socialist Guardians of the Law, 4 March 1938
  • F. Law Amending Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (Excerpts), 24 April 1934
  • G. White Rose - Leaflet 5, February 1943
  • H. The Sentencing of Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, 22 February 1943
  • I. The Fate of Markus Luftglass: Excerpt from the Record of the Nuremberg Justice Case, October 1941
  • J. Opinion and Sentence of the Nuremberg Special Court in the Case of Leo Katzenberger, 13 March 1942
  • K. Testimony of Curt Rothenberger at the Nuremberg Justice Case (Excerpts), 1947
  • L. Gustav Radbruch, “Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law” (excerpt), 1946
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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