Hitler's justice: the courts of the Third Reich
by Ingo Müller and Ingo Müller
Harvard University Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-674-40418-2 | Paper: 978-0-674-40419-9
Library of Congress Classification KK3655.M8513 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.43
TOC TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- I
- Prologue
- 1
- “Time to Raise an Outcry”: German Judges Oppose the Forces of Reaction
- 2
- The Enforcement of Conformity
- 3
- The Judges of the Weimar Republic
- II
- The German Legal System from 1933 to 1945
- 4
- The Reichstag Fire Trial
- 5
- Jurists “Coordinate” Themselves
- 6
- The Legal System during the State of Emergency
- 7
- Treason and Treachery: Political Opposition and the Courts
- 10
- Civil Servants Become the Führer's Political Troops
- 11
- Creation of the Concentration Camps
- 13
- The Courts and Eugenics
- 14
- The Euthanasia Program
- 15
- “Defenders of the Law”: The Supreme Court as a Court of Appeals
- 16
- Arbitrary Decisions in Everyday Life
- 18
- Summary Courts of the “Inner Front”: Jurisdiction of the Special Courts
- 19
- “Correcting” Decisions: The Judicial System and the Police
- 20
- The Legal Officers' Corps: Military Courts in the Second World War
- 21
- Resistance from the Bench
- III
- The Aftermath
- 22
- Collapse and Reconstruction
- 23
- Restoration in the Legal System
- 24
- Coming to Terms with the Past
- 25
- The Opposition Goes on Trial Again
- 27
- Punishing Nazi Criminals
- 28
- The Deserving and the Undeserving: Reparations for the Criminals and Their Victims
- 31
- A Latter-Day “Condemnation” of Nazi Justice
- 32
- An Attempt at an Explanation