Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation

book: Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation

Edited by: Derk Venema

Volume 7 in the series War, Conflict and Genocide Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557103

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About this book

This 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.

Author / Editor information

Venema Derk :

Derk Venema is assistant professor at the Law Faculty of the Open University in the Netherlands. He has published on the Dutch judiciary in WWII and transitional justice theory, amongst other subjects. He teaches professional ethics at the Training Centre for the Judiciary SSR, and is an associated researcher at CegeSoma, Brussels.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Figures and Tables Open Access Download PDF	9
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	11
1 War, Law, Society, and the Courts, 1939-1945: An Introduction Derk Venema Open Access Download PDF	13
2 Prelude : The Belgian Judiciary’s First Experience of German Occupation, 1914-18 Mélanie Bost Open Access Download PDF	37
3 Germany: The Reichsgericht 1933-1945 Martin Löhnig Open Access Download PDF	57
4 The Danish Supreme Court During the German Occupation Ditlev Tamm Open Access Download PDF	81
5 The French Cour de Cassation During the Vichy Period Clément Millon Open Access Download PDF	93
6 The Conseil d’État in Vichy France Marc Olivier Baruch Open Access Download PDF	111
7 Sacrificing the Pig in the Temple – The Supreme Court in Occupied Norway Hans Petter Graver Open Access Download PDF	127
8 The Belgian Court of Cassation in the Turmoil of the Second Occupation Françoise Muller and Kirsten Peters Open Access Download PDF	151
9 The Hoge Raad during the German Occupation of the Netherlands Derk Venema Open Access Download PDF	187
10 The Supreme Courts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Jaromír Tauchen Open Access Download PDF	227
11 The Cour Supérieure de Justice and the Luxembourg State Collapse Vincent Artuso Open Access Download PDF	251
12 The Italian Supreme Court Between Fascism and German Occupation (1943-45) Antonio Grilli Open Access Download PDF	265
13 Supreme Courts Dealing with Nazi Occupation : The Struggle for Order and Identity Derk Venema Open Access Download PDF	275
References Open Access Download PDF	313
Index Open Access Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Judiciary; enemy occupation; second World War; National Socialism; collaboration

eBook

Published: December 9, 2022
ISBN: 9789048557103