Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany

ISBN-13: 9781108792714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 303 str.

Douglas G. Morris

Opis

A stirring account of the years that the leftist Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel spent in Nazi Germany resisting the regime.

Recenzje

'… a source-intensive, detailed study of Fraenkel's resistance in Nazi Germany, which significantly enriches research.' Michael Wildt, H-Soz-Kult von

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Setting the scene of a Jewish lawyer, like Fraenkel, in nazi Germany; 2. Fraenkel as a social democrat practicing law in nazi Germany; 3. Fraenkel as an essayist supporting the illegal underground; 4. Fraenkel as a scholar renouncing the nazi regime's dual state; 5. Thinking about legal justifications for sabotaging a tyrannical regime; Conclusion. The Ernst Fraenkel dilemma.