- Summary
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018
- Locale
- Germany
Europe
- Contents
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Foreword / Lorenz Reibling
Introduction / John J. Michalczyk
Politics, ethics, and natural law in early-twentieth-century Germany, 1900-50 / Douglas G. Morris
Our enemies have no rights : Carl Schmitt and the two-tiered system of justice / Paul Bookbinder
Defining the Jew : the origins of the Nuremberg laws / Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Vichy France and the Nuremberg laws / John B. Romeiser
Judenräte and the Nazi racial policies : ethical issues in Claude Lanzmann's Last of the unjust (2013) / Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan
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 / John J. Michalczyk
Resistance or complicity : medical and religious responses to law under the Third Reich / Johnathan Kelly, Erin Miller, and Michael A. Grodin
Homosexuality and the law in the Third Reich / Melanie Murphy
Physicians, psychologists, and lawyers as torturers : from the Second World War to post 9/11 / George J. Annas and Sondra Crosby
Nazi medicine and the Holocaust : implications for bioethics education and professionalism / Ashley K. Fernandes
German plunder and theft of Jewish property in the general government / David M. Crowe
Nazi laws used to plunder art and the current legal tools used to unwind looting / Leila Amineddoleh
Hereafter versus the here-and-now : Catholicism under national socialism / Kevin P. Spicer
Nazi persecution of German Protestants / Christopher J. Probst
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses before, during, and after the Third Reich / Gerhard Besier
German courts in the maelstron of criminal guilt : the career of functional liability in Nazi death camp trials, 1963-2013 / Michael Bryant
Devil's chemists on trial : the American prosecution of I. G. Farben at Nuremberg / Mark E. Spicka
Nazi experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States / Sandra H. Johnson
Epilogue / John J. Michalczyk.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Michalczyk, John J., 1941- editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-320) and index.
Foreword / Lorenz Reibling -- Introduction / John J. Michalczyk -- Politics, ethics, and natural law in early-twentieth-century Germany, 1900-50 / Douglas G. Morris -- Our enemies have no rights : Carl Schmitt and the two-tiered system of justice / Paul Bookbinder -- Defining the Jew : the origins of the Nuremberg laws / Oleksandr Kobrynskyy -- Vichy France and the Nuremberg laws / John B. Romeiser -- Judenräte and the Nazi racial policies : ethical issues in Claude Lanzmann's Last of the unjust (2013) / Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan -- 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 / John J. Michalczyk -- Resistance or complicity : medical and religious responses to law under the Third Reich / Johnathan Kelly, Erin Miller, and Michael A. Grodin -- Homosexuality and the law in the Third Reich / Melanie Murphy -- Physicians, psychologists, and lawyers as torturers : from the Second World War to post 9/11 / George J. Annas and Sondra Crosby -- Nazi medicine and the Holocaust : implications for bioethics education and professionalism / Ashley K. Fernandes -- German plunder and theft of Jewish property in the general government / David M. Crowe -- Nazi laws used to plunder art and the current legal tools used to unwind looting / Leila Amineddoleh -- Hereafter versus the here-and-now : Catholicism under national socialism / Kevin P. Spicer -- Nazi persecution of German Protestants / Christopher J. Probst -- Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses before, during, and after the Third Reich / Gerhard Besier -- German courts in the maelstron of criminal guilt : the career of functional liability in Nazi death camp trials, 1963-2013 / Michael Bryant -- Devil's chemists on trial : the American prosecution of I. G. Farben at Nuremberg / Mark E. Spicka -- Nazi experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States / Sandra H. Johnson -- Epilogue / John J. Michalczyk.
