The Law in Nazi Germany (eBook, ePUB)

Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice
Redaktion: Steinweis, Alan E.; Rachlin, Robert D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857457813
• Artikelnr.: 39997726

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
1. Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, 11 August 1919
2. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and
State (Reichstag Fire Decree), 28 February 1933
3. Law to Remove the Distress of the People and the State (The Enabling
Act), 23 March 1933
4. Hitler's Call for a Nazi Lawyers' League, 12 September 1928
5. Circular No. 8/1938 from Dr. Karl Leitmeyer, League of National
Socialist Guardians of the Law, 4 March 1938
6. Law Amending Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (Excerpts), 24 April
1934
7. White Rose - Leaflet 5, February 1943
8. The Sentencing of Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, 22
February 1943
9. The Fate of Markus Luftglass: Excerpt from the Record of the
Nuremberg Justice Case, October 1941
10. Opinion and Sentence of the Nuremberg Special Court in the Case of
Leo Katzenberger, 13 March 1942
11. Testimony of Curt Rothenberger at the Nuremberg Justice Case
(Excerpts), 1947
12. Gustav Radbruch, "Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law"
(excerpt), 1946
Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index