Found inside – Page 35As well as some minor officials, they included France's most prominent collabora- tors: Prime Minister Pierre Laval, Propaganda Minister in the 'govern- ... Found inside – Page 258Member of the Slovak People's party ; deputy minister president and minister of justice , social welfare , and health in the autonomous Slovak government ... Looks at how a pastor and a lawyer both resisted the Nazi regime from within, how they did so and the price they paid for their honorable actions. Found insideA judge protested the “euthanasia” program to the minister of justice, proposing to file charges against the program's administrators. Found inside – Page 36and authorized the Reich Minister of Justice to issue regulations for the ... For the first 8 years of the Hitler regime , the Minister of Justice was ... Found insideHitler would later name Gürtner minister of justice in the Third Reich. There is another factor that probably made Bavarian authorities more willing to ... Found insideGerman Justice (which he founded) as well as of the International Chamber of Law, and he was appointed Bavarian minister of justice. Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945 provides the reader with a chilling insight into the judicial terror that took place and the harrowing stories of execution by fallbeil of civilians ... The author identifies the "ethnic fundamentalism" that infused Nazism, revealing the "conscience" and civic morality that founded the core of Nazi ideology, using a wide variety of sources to flesh out this controversial take on the Nazis. ... Found inside – Page 17For instance , on 3 July 1942 , the minister of justice said of a Christian who in 1920 had married a Jew , converted to Judaism , been circumcised , and later raised his son as a Jew : “ Anyone who so attaches himself to Judaism has ... And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance--here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--at the heart of an electrifying, unputdownable novel. In this in-depth examination, Helmut Ortner not only investigates the development and judgments of the Nazi tribunal, but the career of Freisler, a man who was killed in February 1945 during an Allied air raid. Found insideSEX LIFE Clearly Hitler's attitude to sex was also pathological. ... Gürtner went on to become Reich Minister of Justice, while the hapless prosecutor fled ... Found inside – Page 262He had known Hitler for quite some time, and now ventured his views on how ... the Bavarian Minister of Justice (whom Hitler was to make Reich Minister of ... A study of the justice system in the Third Reich explores the response of Germany's legal profession to Nazi power The author of the critically acclaimed Hitler's Private Library presents a gripping historical narrative that tells the story of Josef Hartinger, a local Munich prosecutor, who openly challenged the homicidal impulses of the Third Reich and ... Found inside – Page 68Guertner had been Bavarian Minister of Justice since 1922. He became Reich Minister of Justice in 1932 and stayed on in 1933. As Hitler described that ... Found inside"Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London." Found inside – Page 111After service in World War I, Gürtner established a suc- cessful legal career in Munich and was ap- pointed Bavarian minister of justice in November 1922. Found inside – Page 65The attitude that the “ supreme judge of the German people , ” the Führer , expected from his new minister of justice can be expressed simply : he was ordered to pay no attention to any existing law that might interfere with the establishment of ... This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination. Found inside'But the Minister of Justice has already ruled. The girl died by her own hand.' 'Do you believe that?' the Chief Inspector asked. Interpretative study of the Hitler state now available in English. An important contribution to the study of totalitarian states. Found inside – Page 161Hitler replied in a familiar, and revealing, tone. ... the Bavarian Minister of Justice (whom Hitler was to make Reich Minister of Justice in 1933), ... Found inside – Page 216Otto-Georg Thierack, the president of the People's Court, was appointed as Reich Minister of Justice. This move had already been suggested to Hitler in ... Found insideHe continued to make such demands throughout the war.57 Hitler's first Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner, though by any measure a hardliner, was a moderate ... Found inside – Page 153(It was significant that Gürtner as Bavarian Justice Minister had treated Hitler leniently after the Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) ... Found inside – Page 604mission and empower the Reich Minister of Justice to establish a National ... and that by these appointments Hitler had united the highest offices in the ... Found insideHITLER. IN. PRISON. In February 1924, when Henry Ford blinked his grey ... minister of justice, but today Reichsminister of Justice in Hitler's cabinet. Found inside – Page 160At 5 P.m., probably not many minutes after he bade goodbye to the Minister of Justice, he received Keitel for the first of those meetings "lasting for ... Michael Stolleis is part of a younger generation and is determined to honestly confront the past in hopes of preventing the same injustices from happening in the future. Found insideHere at last are the memoirs of the mysterious Albert Speer, the “good Nazi” Joachim Fest’s records of conversations with Speer provide a fascinating insight into the psyche of Hitler’s architect This book is a vital contribution ... Justice Delayed examines how the United States attempted to reconstitute a democratic legal system in Bavaria on the ruins of Hitler's «thousand-year Reich.» Hitler’s First Victims is both the story of Hartinger’s race to expose the Nazi regime’s murderous nature before it was too late and the story of a man willing to sacrifice everything in his pursuit of justice, just as the doors to ... Found insidePöhner was also influential in persuading Franz Gürtner, the Bavarian Minister of Justice (whom Hitler was to make Reich Minister of Justice in 1933), ... Found inside – Page 43In 1935 the administration of justice was removed from the Länder and centralised in the hands of the Reich Minister of Justice , Franz Gürtner ; in the ... Found inside – Page 3719Is it perhaps because the Minister of Economic Affair's statement is curiously similar to the statement of Hitler's Minister of Justice , Dr. Görtner , who in 1933 made this statement . When Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1933 , like the present ... Found inside – Page 27In fact about two - thirds of the judges holding office in 1939 had been appointed before Hitler came to power , while Gürtner himself , the Reich Minister of Justice , was only nominally a Party member . Moreover the training of young lawyers in ... Found inside – Page 290The exchange went as follows: Dr Browne asked the Minister for Justice whether Mr Skorzeny has asked for permission to reside permanently in Ireland. Chronicles the life of the Nazi leader, including his childhood and youth, his transformation of the SS from a small bodyguard unit into a powerful organization within the Nazi Party, and how his political maneuvering and rise in power set ... Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines by taking us through the life of survivor Renée Appel, who found refuge in Canada. Found insideAs the Minister for Propaganda and Culture, Joseph Goebbels shaped the German people’s perception of the Nazi Party, drumming up public support for anti-Semitism and the war effort through films, speeches, and restrictions on the press ... In 1934 the Nazis set up a special court to deal with treason against the German state. Found inside – Page 89personal assistant to Minister Koch-Weser and had continued in the same function under ... Then, in May 1933, Hitler's Minister of Justice, Franz Gurtner, ... Found insideHe is the author of the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel), Mitte, and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City). He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders’s film Palermo Shooting. Found insideNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH • From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler’s malevolent minister of propaganda. Found insideThe unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Found inside – Page 98On 4 January 1933 he met with Hitler in the house of the Düsseldorf banker ... who had been Bavarian Minister of Justice at the time of Hitler's Beer Hall ... Found inside“Sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the ‘good Nazi.’”—Kirkus Reviews In his bestselling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief ...