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dc.contributor.editorVenema, Derk
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-10T11:07:34Z
dc.date.available2022-11-10T11:07:34Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59200
dc.description.abstractThis is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of democracy and rule of law? What role was there for international law? How did the courts deal with dismissals, new appointees, new courts, forced German ordinances versus national law? How did judges justify their actions, help citizens, appease the enemy, protest against injustice? Experts from all democracies that were occupied by the Nazis paint vivid pictures of oppression, collaboration, and resistance. The results are interpreted in a socio-legal framework introducing the concept of ‘moral hygiene’ to explain the clash between normative and descriptive approaches in public opinion and scholarship concerning officials’ behaviour in war-time.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWar, Conflict and Genocide Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World Waren_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWL Modern warfareen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBL c 1940 to c 1949::3MPBLB c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNA Legal systems: general::LNAA Legal systems: courts and proceduresen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHX Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorshipen_US
dc.subject.otherJudiciary, enemy occupation, second World War, National Socialism, collaborationen_US
dc.titleSupreme Courts Under Nazi Occupationen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463720496en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789463720496en_US
oapen.series.number7en_US
oapen.pages342en_US
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdamen_US


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