Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg

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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 Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: A Judicial System Without Jews and Without Justice 1. Politics, Ethics, and Natural Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany, 1900–50 2. Our Enemies Have No Rights: Carl Schmitt and the Two-Tiered System of Justice 3. Defining the Jew: The Origins of the Nuremberg Laws 4. Vichy France and the Nuremberg Laws 5. The Judenräte and the Nazi Racial Policies: Ethical Issues in Claude Lanzmann’s Last of the Unjust (2013) 6. 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 Part 2: Hippocrates Abandoned by Nazi Doctors 7. Resistance or Complicity: Medical and Religious Responses to Law under the Third Reich 8. Homosexuality and the Law in the Third Reich 9. Physicians, Psychologists, and Lawyers as Torturers: From the Second World War to Post 9/11 10. Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust: Implications for Bioethics Education and Professionalism Part 3: Economic Policies and the Stripping of the Jewish Community 11. The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government 12. Nazi Laws Used to Plunder Art and the Current Legal Tools Used to Unwind Looting Part 4: A God Subverted by Nazi Policy 13. The Hereafter versus the Here-and-Now: Catholicism under National Socialism 14. Nazi Persecution of German Protestants 15. Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Before, During, and After the Third Reich Part 5: To the Victor Belongs Justice: At Nuremberg and Beyond 16. German Courts in the Maelstrom of Criminal Guilt: The Career of Functional Liability in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1963–2016 17. The Devil’s Chemists on Trial: The American Prosecution of I. G. Farben at Nuremberg 18. Nazi Experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States Epilogue Notes Glossary General Bibliography Index