Nazi Crimes And The Law

Author : Alan E. Steinweis,Robert D. Rachlin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457813

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The Law in Nazi Germany by Alan E. Steinweis,Robert D. Rachlin Pdf

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.

Author : Nathan Stoltzfus,Henry Friedlander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899741

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Nazi Crimes and the Law by Nathan Stoltzfus,Henry Friedlander Pdf

They span the postwar period up to contemporary U.S. legal efforts to deport Nazi criminals within its borders and libel suits brought by Holocaust deniers in British and Canadian courts, and they reveal new perspectives on the present and future implications of these trials."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Daniel Plesch
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781626164314

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Human Rights After Hitler by Daniel Plesch Pdf

Human Rights after Hitler is a groundbreaking history about the forgotten work of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II in response to Axis atrocities. He explains the commission's work, why its files were kept secret, and demonstrates how the lost precedents of the commission's indictments should introduce important new paradigms for prosecuting war crimes today. The UNWCC examined roughly 36,000 cases in Europe and Asia. Thousands of trials were carried out at the country-level, and hundreds of war criminals were convicted. This rewrites the history of human rights in the wake of World War II, which is too focused on the few trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo. Until a protracted lobbying effort by Plesch and colleagues, the UNWCC's files had been kept out of public view in the UN archives under pressure from the US government. The US initially wanted the files closed to smooth the way for post-war collaboration with Germany and Japan, and the few researchers who did gain permission to see the files were not permitted to even take notes until the files' recent release. Now revealed, the precedents set by these cases should have enormous practical utility for prosecuting war crimes today.

Author : Michael Bazyler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199749164

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Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law by Michael Bazyler Pdf

A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly work. This book examines the background of the Holocaust and genocide through the prism of the law; the criminal and civil prosecution of the Nazis and their collaborators for Holocaust-era crimes; and contemporary attempts to criminally prosecute perpetrators for the crime of genocide. It provides the history of the Holocaust as a legal event, and sets out how genocide has become known as the "crime of crimes" under both international law and in popular discourse. It goes on to discuss specific post-Holocaust legal topics, and examines the Holocaust as a catalyst for post-Holocaust international justice. Together, this collection of subjects establishes a new legal discipline, which the author Michael Bazyler labels "Post-Holocaust Law."

Author : Patrycja Grzebyk
Publisher : Wydawnictwo Instytutu Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Responsibility for negation of international crimes by Patrycja Grzebyk Pdf

History is no longer the exclusive domain of historians, but is now often used as a tool for politics. It is not without reason that the term “state historical policy” has been coined, which must be a kind of aberration for those who believed that the role of history is to objectively determine the course of events. The fact is, however, that the distortion of historical facts, the concealment of crimes is now part of the “information war”. Therefore, new acts of public international law, EU law and national law are introduced in order to combat public condonation, denial or gross trivialisation of the core international crimes which are certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia. States have to determine for themselves how they understand “denial” or “gross trivialization”, which may lead to abuse. In many cases, when introducing criminal law provisions, States wish to decree historical truth, to establish once and for all the general facts and determine who was the victim, and who was the perpetrator. This does not have to be the result of bad will, but of a desire to exclude the possibility of nuance, which could turn into dangerous trivialisation. The aim of this publication is to specify the reasons for holding accountable for denial of international crimes, indicate legal obligations in this respect, look at the Polish case, both in terms of criminal provisions (partly repealed) and standards of a civil law nature, and compare the Polish regulation with the legal systems of other states, which were chosen because of the region (Central and Eastern Europe) or due to having current problems with denial of crimes or doubts about prosecution on this account.

Author : Annette Weinke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789201062

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Law, History, and Justice by Annette Weinke Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

Author : David Hirsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135311513

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Law Against Genocide by David Hirsh Pdf

Bringing a sociologist's insight to legal institutions and narratives, this book is an innovative and timely sociological contribution to current concerns regarding critical cosmopolitanism, human rights and crimes against humanity.

Author : Timothy L.H. McCormack,Steven Wheatley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004641709

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The Law of War Crimes by Timothy L.H. McCormack,Steven Wheatley Pdf

Author : John J. Michalczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350007246

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Nazi Law by John J. Michalczyk Pdf

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.

Author : American Historical Association. Historical Service Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : MINN:30000008413357

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What Shall be Done with the War Criminals? by American Historical Association. Historical Service Board Pdf

Author : Herlinde Pauer-Studer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107159303

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Justifying Injustice by Herlinde Pauer-Studer Pdf

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime's escalating atrocities.

Author : Christian Delage,Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136330674

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The Scene of the Mass Crime by Christian Delage,Peter Goodrich Pdf

The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been crucial both as evidence of atrocity and as the means of publicizing the proceedings. But what does film bring to justice? Can law successfully address war crimes, atrocities, genocide? What do the trials actually show? What form of justice is done, and how does it relate to ordinary courts and proceedings? What lessons can be drawn from this history for the very topical political issue of filming civil and criminal trials? This book takes up the diversity and complexity of these idiosyncratic and, in strict terms, generally extra-legal medial situations. Drawing on a fascinating diversity of public trials and filmic responses, from the Trial of the Gang of Four to the Gacaca local courts of Rwanda to the filmic symbolism of 9-11, from Soviet era show trials to Nazi People's Courts leading international scholars address the theatrical, political, filmic and symbolic importance of show trials in making history, legitimating regimes and, most surprising of all, in attempting to heal trauma through law and through film. These essays will be of considerable interest to those working on international criminal law, transitional justice, genocide studies, and the relationship between law and film.

Author : Kevin Heller,Gerry Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199671144

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The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials by Kevin Heller,Gerry Simpson Pdf

Several war crimes trials are well-known to scholars, but others have received far less attention. This book assesses a number of these little-studied trials to recognise institutional innovations, clarify doctrinal debates, and identify their general relevance to the development of international criminal law.

Author : Ingo Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Judges
ISBN : UOM:39015019599946

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Hitler's Justice by Ingo Müller Pdf

Why did the judges, lawyers, and law professors of a civilized state succumb to a lawless regime? What happened to liberalism and the rule of law under the Third Reich? How many of the legal institutions and how much of their personnel carried over to the West German state after World War II?

Author : Johann Chapoutot
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674985827

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The Law of Blood by Johann Chapoutot Pdf

The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die. Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals, apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot explores. The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values—Jewish values in particular—had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.