Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
The Holocaust's Ghost
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2000) 263-282
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
The authoritarian Nazi state, in its contempt for individual rights, introduced a terrorist legal system and turned the prosecuting attorney and defense advocate into servants of the judge and therefore of the state. Thus, Nazi Germany continued a tendency manifest in the pre-Nazi period, when Jews were victims of legal terrorism. In 1933-38 the bar was increasingly purged of undesirables, 90% of whom were Jews. Emphasizes that, in so doing, the Nazi regime regarded Jews as exponents and defenders of liberal and democratic principles, rather than racial enemies. Consequently, antisemitism became the most effective agent in the destruction of the liberal German bar. The non-Jewish sector of the German bar accepted the Nazi purges and their primitively racist theoretical underpinnings, partly due to economic motivations.
Note:
Appeared previously in the "McGill Law Journal" 32 (1986).
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