Supreme courts under Nazi occupation / edited by Derk Venema.
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | War, conflict and genocide studies.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of democracy and rule of law? What role was there for international law? How did the courts deal with dismissals, new appointees, new courts, forced German ordinances versus national law? How did judges justify their actions, help citizens, appease the enemy, protest against injustice? Experts from all democracies that were occupied by the Nazis paint vivid pictures of oppression, collaboration, and resistance. The results are interpreted in a socio-legal framework introducing the concept of 'moral hygiene' to explain the clash between normative and descriptive approaches in public opinion and scholarship concerning officials' behaviour in war-time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9048557100 9789048557103 9463720499 9789463720496 |