A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and right across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their master plan for German society.
The book looks at how, after assuming power in 1933, the Nazi Party manipulated the legal system and the constitution in its crusade against Communists, Jews, homosexuals, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious and racial minorities, resulting in World War II and the Holocaust. It then goes on to analyse how the law was subsequently used by the opponents of Nazism in the wake of World War Two to punish them in the war crime trials at Nuremberg.
This is a valuable edited collection of interest to all scholars and students interested in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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This fine collection of essays explores how law came to serve as a tool of destruction in the Third Reich and as a means of moral reconstruction in the postwar years. It offers a timely and valuable intervention in ongoing debates about the capacity of law to deform and reform societies. * Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College, USA * From a wide variety of perspectives, the contributors to this book underline the supreme importance of the rule of justice and the horrifying consequences of its neglect. Well-written and thought-provoking. * D.W. de Mildt, editor of Justiz und NS-Verbrechen / Nazi Crimes on Trial, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
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An exploration of how the Nazis harnessed and exploited the law to impose their will and how the law ultimately prevailed in the form of the Nuremberg war crime trials.
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| Contributors |
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Part 1 A Judicial System Without Jews and Without Justice |
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1 Politics, Ethics, and Natural Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany, 1900--50 |
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2 Our Enemies Have No Rights: Carl Schmitt and the Two-Tiered System of Justice |
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3 Denning the Jew: The Origins of the Nuremberg Laws |
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4 Vichy France and the Nuremberg Laws |
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5 The Judenrate and the Nazi Racial Policies: Ethical Issues in Claude Lanzmann's Last of the Unjust (2013) |
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6 High Treason in the People's Court: Postwar Plans of Fr. Max Josef Metzger, Peace Activist, and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke of the Kreisau Circle |
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Part 2 Hippocrates Abandoned by Nazi Doctors |
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7 Resistance or Complicity: Medical and Religious Responses to Law under the Third Reich |
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8 Homosexuality and the Law in the Third Reich |
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9 Physicians, Psychologists, and Lawyers as Torturers: From the Second World War to Post 9/11 |
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10 Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust: Implications for Bioethics Education and Professionalism |
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Part 3 Economic Policies and the Stripping of the Jewish Community |
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11 The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government |
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12 Nazi Laws Used to Plunder Art and the Current Legal Tools Used to Unwind Looting |
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Part 4 A God Subverted by Nazi Policy |
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13 The Hereafter versus the Here-and-Now: Catholicism under National Socialism |
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14 Nazi Persecution of German Protestants |
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15 Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Before, During, and After the Third |
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Part 5 To the Victor Belongs Justice: At Nuremberg and Beyond |
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16 German Courts in the Maelstrom of Criminal Guilt: The Career of Functional Liability in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1963-2016 |
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17 The Devil's Chemists on Trial: The American Prosecution of I. G. Farben at Nuremberg |
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18 Nazi Experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States |
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| Epilogue |
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| Notes |
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| Glossary |
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| General Bibliography |
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John J. Michalczyk is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, USA. He is the author of Filming the End of the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is also the editor of Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues (1994), Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees: Historical and Ethical Issues (1997) and, with SJ Raymond G. Helmick, Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing (2013).
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