02299nam 2200385z- 450 991062722800332120231214133409.0(CKB)5860000000234002(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93512(EXLCZ)99586000000023400220202211d2023 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSupreme Courts Under Nazi OccupationAmsterdamAmsterdam University Press20231 electronic resource (342 p.)War, Conflict and Genocide Studies94-6372-049-9 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.Second World WarbicsscCourts & procedurebicsscPolitical structures: totalitarianism & dictatorshipbicsscJudiciary, enemy occupation, second World War, National Socialism, collaborationSecond World WarCourts & procedurePolitical structures: totalitarianism & dictatorshipVenema Derkedt1322304Venema DerkothBOOK9910627228003321Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation3034785UNINA