An Unsparing Analysis of the Legal Principles and Constitutional Developments of the Third Reich This classic study is widely considered one of the finest analyses of totalitarianism. It was written in Germany in the late 1930s and completed in the United States in 1940, where Fraenkel lived after fleeing the Nazis in 1938. The title derives from Fraenkel's thesis that National Socialism divided the law into two co-existing areas. The first of these, The Normative State, protects the legal order as expressed in statutes, decisions of courts and the activities of administrative agencies. Its...
An Unsparing Analysis of the Legal Principles and Constitutional Developments of the Third Reich This classic study is widely considered one of the fi...
This is a lucid and factual exposition thoroughly documented and supported by references to official publications. The introduction by Fraenkel is an exposition of the labor courts in the German judicial system. The body of the study presents the historical development of labor law up to 1927, an analysis of the system as it operated from then until 1933, and an account of the changes occurring under national socialism.
Originally published in 1946.
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This is a lucid and factual exposition thoroughly documented and supported by references to official publications. The introduction by Fraenkel is an ...
The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism-and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany. Ernst Fraenkel's courageous ethnography of law was widely acclaimed upon publication, and it has influenced considerably postwar debates about the nature of the "Third Reich." But The Dual State also has relevance for the study of dictatorship in the twenty-first century. Fraenkel's innovative concept of "the dual state," with...
The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensiv...
Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich nicht die Aufgabe, die groGe Zahl wissen schaftlicher Untersuchungen des amerikanischen Regierungssystems, die das Ziel verfolgen, amerikanische Leser mit dem ProzeG der politischen Willens bildung in den USA vertraut zu machen, urn eine weitere zu vermehren. Det Verfasser ist vielmehr bemtiht, deutschen Lesern den Zugang zu der Frage zu eroffnen, wie in Amerika regiert wird. Er mochte seine Leser nicht davon abhalten, sich an Hand des amerikanischen Schrifttums Kenntnisse tiber die USA anzueignen; er mochte sie im Gegenteil hierzu ermuntern, ihnen dieses...
Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich nicht die Aufgabe, die groGe Zahl wissen schaftlicher Untersuchungen des amerikanischen Regierungssystems, die das Z...
