Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
In recent years there has been an increased interest in the Holocaust.' One concern has been to explain the willingness of ordinary Germans2 and highly educated medical professionals' to conform to the draconian dictates of the Third Reich.4 This scholarly effort largely has ignored the complicity of lawyers and judges in the Nazi's depredations.5 The lack of academic concern may be based on the belief that the Reich was a "lawless" regime in which legal professionals performed a limited role. Most studies accordingly have centered on the extra-judicial and summary exterminations carried out by the Nazi government. 6 However, the legal system in the Third Reich was an instrument of repression.7 In fact, as many as thirty-two thousand individuals were sentenced to death by the judiciary during the twelve years of Hitler's rule.
Recommended Citation
Lippman, Matthew, "The White Rose: Judges and Justice in the Third Reich" (2000). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 335.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/335
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