Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-320) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction : John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA) -- Part I.A Judicial System without Jews and without Justice -- 1. Jewish Legal Critiques of the Nuremberg Laws / Douglas Morris (Federal Defenders NY, USA) -- 2. Racial Ideology and the Nuremberg Laws / Raymond Helmick, SJ (Boston College, USA) -- 3. Nuremberg Laws in France / John Romeiser (University of Tennessee, USA) -- 4. Carl Schmitt and the Nazi Control of Law / Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts, USA) -- 5. The Judenrat and the Nazi Racial Policies / Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (Haifa University, Israel) -- 6. High Treason in the People's Court and German Military Court / John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA) -- Part II -- Hippocrates Abandoned by Nazi Doctors -- 7. Medical and Spiritual Resistance to Nazi Law / Michael A. Grodin (Boston University, USA) -- 8. Homosexuality and the Law in the Third Reich / Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA) -- 9. Medical Ethics in the Third Reich and Torture Today / George Annas (Boston University School of Public Health, USA) -- 10. Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust / Ashley Fernandes (Ohio State University, USA) -- Part III -- Economic Policies and the Stripping of the Jewish Community -- 11. The Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government / David M. Crowe (Elon University, USA) -- 12. Taking from the Weak, Giving to the Strong / Alfred Mierzejewski (University of North Texas, USA) -- 13. Nazi Art Law and the Plunder of the Jews / Leila Amineddoleh (Fordham University, USA) -- Part IV -- A God Subverted by Nazi Policy -- 14. Catholics under National Socialism / Kevin Spicer (Stonehill College, USA) -- 15. The Nazi Persecution of German Protestants / Christopher Probst (University of St. Louis, USA) -- 16. Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich / Gerhard Besier (Dresden University, Germany) -- Part V -- To the Victor Belongs Justice : At Nuremberg and Beyond -- 17. Comprehending Nazi Atrocities / John Q. Barrett (St. John's University, USA) -- 18. John Demjanjuk in Munich / Lawrence Douglas (Amherst College, USA) -- 19. Crimes of the Wehrmacht's Mountain Troops / Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) -- 20. German Courts in the Maelstrom of Criminal Guilt : Tracing the Rise of Collective Responsibility in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1963-2016 / Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA) -- Epilogue -- John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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