Book contents
- Justifying Injustice
- Justifying Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Reference Policy
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich
- 3 The Führer State
- 4 National Socialist Criminal Law
- 5 Racial Legislation
- 6 Police Law
- 7 The SS Jurisdiction
- 8 The Moralization of Law in National Socialism
- Biographical Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2020
- Justifying Injustice
- Justifying Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Reference Policy
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich
- 3 The Führer State
- 4 National Socialist Criminal Law
- 5 Racial Legislation
- 6 Police Law
- 7 The SS Jurisdiction
- 8 The Moralization of Law in National Socialism
- Biographical Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index
Summary
The introduction outlines the main principles of National Socialist law and the institutional framework for implementing it. I also discuss how Nazi legal thinkers expounded their theoretical understanding of law in relation to philosophers such as Rousseau, Hegel, and Kant.
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- Justifying InjusticeLegal Theory in Nazi Germany, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020