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The Rule of Law, Nazi Law and War Crimes Prosecutions: Resources

This guide highlights resources to support students in the BLS seminar: The Rule of Law, Nazi Law, & War Crimes Prosecutions

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In its first-floor Reserve collection, BLS Library provides print copies of two books emphasized on p. 5 of the Seminar Syllabus: Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich (1991)The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (1st ed. c1997).  BLS Library's team also has added to Course Reserve its print copies of books highlighted in required Weekly Assignments on the Seminar Syllabus.  BLS students can request Reserve/Course Reserve books at the first-floor Circulation Desk.  These books circulate for 2 hours at a time.  Click here to view hours when students can check out Reserve/Course Reserve books at BLS Library's Circulation Desk. To stop the book display (below) from scrolling, click the circle at the bottom of the book carousel's box. 

Books on Reserve/Course Reserve (see p. 5- of Seminar Syllabus)

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics rev. ed. c2006)

1 print copy (call #: DD247.E5 A7 2006) is on Reserve.

Excerpt from publisher's description: "Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account."

FYI: BLS Library's subscription to HeinOnline's World Trials Library includes: In the District Court of Jerusalem, the Attorney General of the Government of Israel v. Adolf, the Son of Karl Adolf Eichmann: Judgment and Judgment on Appeal, 1 vol. [1962].  09/04/25: Also, BLS Library is checking its holdings of The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Record of Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem.  (Note: A multi-volume trial record does not circulate.) 

Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (reprinted in 2000)

1 print copy (call # DD247.H5 K462 1999)  is on Course Reserve

Biography by Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, The University of Sheffield.

Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Reflecting on Hitler -- 1. Fantasy and Failure -- 2. Drop-out -- 3. Elation and Embitterment -- 4. Discovering a Talent -- 5. The Beerhall Agitator -- 6. The ‘Drummer’ -- 7. Emergence of the Leader -- 8. Mastery over the Movement -- 9. Breakthrough -- 10. Levered into Power -- 11. The Making of the Dictator -- 12. Securing Total Power -- 13. Working Towards the Führer.

Includes Glossary of Abbreviations, Notes, List of Works Cited, Acknowledgements + Index.

 

Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich (1991)

1 print copy (call # KK3655 .M85 1991) is on Reserve.

Translation of: Furchtbare Juristen.
Prologue. "Time to Raise an Outcry": German Judges Oppose the Forces of Reaction -- The Enforcement of Conformity -- The Judges of the Weimar Republic -- The German Legal System from 1933 to 1945. The Reichstag Fire Trial -- Jurists "Coordinate" Themselves -- The Legal System During the State of Emergency -- Treason and Treachery: Political Opposition and the Courts -- Purges at the Bar -- Nazi Jurisprudence -- Civil Servant Become the Führer's Political Troops -- Creation of the Concentration Camps -- "Protecting the Race" -- The Courts and Eugenics -- The Euthanasia Program -- "Defenders of the Law": The Supreme Court as a Court of Appeals -- Arbitrary Decisions in Everyday Life -- The People's Court -- Summary Courts of the "Inner Front": Jurisdiction of the Special Courts -- "Correcting" Decisions: The Judicial System and the Police -- The Legal Officers' Corps: Military Courts in the Second World War -- Resistance from the Bench -- The Aftermath. Collapse and Reconstruction -- Restoration in the Legal System -- Coming to Terms with the Past -- The Opposition Goes on Trial Again -- Law Schools -- Punishing Nazi Criminals -- The Deserving and the Undeserving: Reparations for the Criminals and Their Victims -- Jurists on Trial -- Injustice Confirmed -- A Latter-Day "Condemnation" of Nazi Justice -- An Attempt at an Explanation.
Includes bibliographical references + index.

Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory (c1976)

1 print copy is on Course Reserve (call # K370 .U54 1976) + 1 print copy also is available in the circulating Int'l. collection.

Contents: Ch 1.: The Predicament of Social Theory -- Ch. 2: Law and the Forms of Society -- Ch. 3: Law and Modernity -- Ch. 4: The Predicament of Social Theory Revisited.

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (1st ed. c1997)

1 print copy (call # D804.G42 N87 1997) is on Reserve.
Contents: Historical Precedents. Majority Report, March 29, 1919 / Commission of Responsibilities. Memorandum of Reservations to the Majority Report, April 4, 1919 / United States Representatives on the Commission of Responsibilities. The Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928. Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, August 8, 1932 / Henry L. Stimson -- Background. Moscow Declaration, November 1, 1943 / Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. An Exchange with Roosevelt and Stalin at Teheran, November 29, 1943 / Winston S. Churchill. Memorandum for President Roosevelt (The Morgenthau Plan) September 5, 1944 / Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends (c1961)

In BLS Library's catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). BLS Library provides "unlimited" copies to view. 1 print copy (call # K487.P65 K57 1961) also is on Course Reserve.

Contents: Part I. Political Justice: Cases, Causes, Methods; 6. Trial as a Political Technique; Part 2. the Judge, the Defendant and the State; Part 3. Political Justice Modified: Asylum and Clemency.

The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945 (reprint of 1991 ed.)

1 print copy (call # DD256.5 .B93 1991) is on Reserve.

Contents: The Setting -- The 'Purification' of the Body of the Nation -- The Formation of the 'National Community'.