The Law in Nazi Germany -

The Law in Nazi Germany

Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-921-7 (ISBN)
34,85 inkl. MwSt
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 how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination. The chapters address why German lawyers and jurists were attracted to Nazism; how their support of the regime resulted from a combination of ideological conviction, careerist opportunism, and legalistic selfdelusion; and whether they were held accountable for their Nazi-era actions after 1945. This book also examines the experiences of Jewish lawyers who fell victim to anti-Semitic measures. The volume will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers with an interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the history of jurisprudence.

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 1.5.2015
Reihe/Serie Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 304 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78238-921-0 / 1782389210
ISBN-13 978-1-78238-921-7 / 9781782389217
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Europa 1848/49 und der Kampf für eine neue Welt

von Christopher Clark

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
DVA (Verlag)
48,00