The Law in Nazi Germany
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-780-6 (ISBN)
Alan E. Steinweis is the Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies and Director of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. His books include Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (1993); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (2006); and Kristallnacht 1938 (2009). In 2011 he held the visiting professorship in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies and German-Jewish History at the Fritz Bauer Institute at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Law in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Alan E. Steinweis and Robert D. Rachlin
Chapter 1. The Conundrum of Complicity: German Professionals and the Final Solution
Konrad H. Jarausch
Chapter 2. Civil Service Lawyers and the Holocaust: The Case of Wilhelm Stuckart
Hans-Christian Jasch
Chapter 3. Roland Freisler and the Volksgerichtshof: The Court as an Instrument of Terror
Robert D. Rachlin
Chapter 4. Guilt, Shame, Anger, Indignation: Nazi Law and Nazi Morals
Raphael Gross
Chapter 5. Discrimination, Degradation, Defiance: Jewish Lawyers under Nazism
Douglas G. Morris
Chapter 6. Evading Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity: Murderous Lawyers at Nuremberg
Harry Reicher
Chapter 7. Judging German Judges in the Third Reich: Excusing and Confronting the Past
Kenneth F. Ledford
Appendices
Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, 11 August 1919
Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State (Reichstag Fire Decree), 28 February 1933
Law to Remove the Distress of the People and the State (The Enabling Act), 23 March 1933
Hitler’s Call for a Nazi Lawyers’ League, 12 September 1928
Circular No. 8/1938 from Dr. Karl Leitmeyer, League of National Socialist Guardians of the Law, 4 March 1938
Law Amending Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (Excerpts), 24 April 1934
White Rose - Leaflet 5, February 1943
The Sentencing of Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, 22 February 1943
The Fate of Markus Luftglass: Excerpt from the Record of the Nuremberg Justice Case, October 1941
Opinion and Sentence of the Nuremberg Special Court in the Case of Leo Katzenberger, 13 March 1942
Testimony of Curt Rothenberger at the Nuremberg Justice Case (Excerpts), 1947
Gustav Radbruch, “Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law” (excerpt), 1946
Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.4.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 449 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
ISBN-10 | 0-85745-780-2 / 0857457802 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-85745-780-6 / 9780857457806 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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