Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Juristen jüdischer Herkunft
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1993) 813-852
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc. 1933-1945
;
History
;
Jewish judges
;
Jewish lawyers History 1933-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces Nazi measures against Jewish jurists in Germany. In March 1933, SA troops stormed courthouses in several cities and brutally attacked Jewish judges and lawyers. In the following months, by means of the law "Zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums", Jewish civil servants, including judges, state attorneys, and law school faculty, were dismissed from their posts. The number of Jewish lawyers was gradually restricted, until in September 1938 Jews were excluded altogether from the practice of law, except for a small number of "consultants". German jurists put up little resistance to these measures. They participated in the formulation of anti-Jewish legislation, such as the Nuremberg Laws, and supported the courts' service to Nazism. Traces, also, the fate of individual Jewish jurists.
Note:
An abridged English version appeared as "The ousting of Jewish lawyers from the German Nazi state" in "Justice" 22 (1999) 7-16.
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