Contents
Introduction by Detlev Vagts k
I • Prologue
1 • “Time to Raise an Outcry”: German Judges Oppose the
Forces of Reaction 3
2 ■ The Enforcement of Conformity 6
3 • The Judges of the Weimar Republic 10
II • The German Legal System from 1933 to 1945
4 • The Reichstag Fire Trial 27
5 • Jurists “Coordinate” Themselves 36
6 • The Legal System during the State of Emergency 46
7 • Treason and Treachery: Political Opposition and the Courts 50
8 • Purges at the Bar 59
9 • Nazi Jurisprudence 68
10 • Civil Servants Become the Fuhrer’s Political Troops 82
11 • Creation of the Concentration Camps 85
12 • “Protecting the Race” 90
13 • The Courts and Eugenics 120
14 • The Euthanasia Program 126
15 • “Defenders of the Law”: The Supreme Court as a
Court of Appeals 129