Hitler's justice: the courts of the Third Reich

Abstract

Part 1 Prologue: Time to Raise an Outcry - German judges oppose the forces of reactions the enforcement of conformity the judges of the Weimar republic. Part 2 The German legal system from 1933 to 1945: the Reichstag Fire Trial jurists Coordinate themselves the legal system during the state of emergency treason and treachery - political opposition and the courts purges at the bar nazi jurisprudence civil servants become the Fuhrer's political troops creation of the concentration camps Protecting the Race the courts and eugenics the euthanasia programme defenders of the - the Supreme court as a Court of Appeals arbitrary decisions in everyday life the people's court summary courts of the Inner Front - jurisdiction of the special courts Correcting decisions - the judicial system and the police the legal officers' corps - military courts in the Second world War resistance from the bench. Part 3 Aftermath: collapse and reconstruction restoration in the legal system coming to terms with the past the opposition goes on trial again law schools punishing nazi criminals the deserving and the undeserving - reparations for the criminals and their victims jurists on trial injustice confirmed a latter-day Condemnation of nazi justice an attempt at an explanation.