The Law in Nazi Germany: Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction — The Law in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust......Page 12
Chapter 1 — The Conundrum of Complicity: German Professionals and the Final Solution......Page 26
Chapter 2 — Civil Service Lawyers and the Holocaust: The Case of Wilhelm Stuckart......Page 48
Chapter 3 — Roland Freisler and the Volksgerichtshof: The Court as an Instrument of Terror......Page 74
Chapter 4 — Guilt, Shame, Anger, Indignation: Nazi Law and Nazi Morals......Page 100
Chapter 5 — Discrimination, Degradation, Defiance: Jewish Lawyers under Nazism......Page 116
Chapter 6 — Evading Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity: Murderous Lawyers at Nuremberg......Page 148
Chapter 7 — Judging German Judges in the Third Reich: Excusing and Confronting the Past......Page 172
Appendix A — Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution: 11 August 1919......Page 202
Appendix B — Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State (Reichstag Fire Decree): 28 February 1933......Page 203
Appendix C — Law to Remove the Distress of the People and the State (The Enabling Act): 23 March 1933......Page 205
Appendix D — Hitler's Call for a Nazi Lawyer's League: 12 September 1928......Page 207
Appendix E — Circular No. 8/1938 from Dr. Karl Leitmeyer, League of National Socialist Guardians of the Law: 4 March 1938......Page 208
Appendix F — Law Amending Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (Excerpts): 24 April 1934......Page 210
Appendix G — White Rose - Leaflet 5: February 1943......Page 213
Appendix H — The Sentencing of Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christopher Probst: 22 February 1943......Page 215
Appendix I — The Fate of Markus Luftglass: Excerpt from the Record of the Nuremberg Justice Case: October 1941......Page 219
Appendix J — Opinion and Sentence of the Nuremberg Special Court in the Case of Leo Katzenberger: 13 March 1942......Page 222
Appendix K — Testimony of Curt Rothenberger at the Nuremberg Justice Case (Excerpts): 1947......Page 235
Appendix L — Gustav Radbruch, "Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law" (excerpt): 1946......Page 241
Contributors......Page 244
Selected Bibliography......Page 247
Index......Page 252