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The law in Nazi Germany : ideology, opportunism, and the perversion of justice /

"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 accoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Steinweis, Alan E. (Editor), Rachlin, Robert D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Vermont studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The conundrum of complicity : German professionals and the final solution / Konrad H. Jarausch
  • Civil service lawyers and the Holocaust : the case of Wilhelm Stuckart / Hans-Christian Jasch
  • Roland Freisler and the Volksgerichtshof : the court as an instrument of terror / Robert D. Rachlin
  • Guilt, shame, anger, indignation : Nazi law and Nazi morals / Raphael Gross
  • Discrimination, degradation, defiance : Jewish lawyers under Nazism / Douglas G. Morris
  • Evading responsibility for crimes against humanity : murderous lawyers at Nuremberg / Harry Reicher
  • Judging German judges in the Third Reich : excusing and confronting the past / Kenneth F. Ledford
  • Appendixes.