A Day in the Life: Aryanization Before the Swedish Supreme Court 1941–42

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-617
Author(s):  
Anna Wallerman
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Appointed Administrators

AbstractThis article examines the jurisprudence of the Swedish Supreme Court during WW2 in disputes between exiled Jewish business owners and the Nazi-appointed administrators of their companies over the rights to the enterprises’ assets in Sweden. Contrary to assertions in previous scholarship, this article argues that the judgments of the Supreme Court were dictated neither by moral indignation in the face of the treatment of Jews in the Third Reich, nor by political considerations in a time of war. Instead, they were based on principles of private international law that predated, and outlived, the Third Reich. The outcome of the cases hinged upon whether the claim to Swedish assets arose before or after the date when the enterprise was placed under forced administration. If before, the claims of the Jewish owners were in principle successful; if after, they were not. This reasoning was well in line with both previous and subsequent case law on confiscations effected abroad. The article therefore concludes that the Swedish Supreme Court's judgments on Jewish assets in Sweden should be viewed not as outflows of extrajudicial considerations, but rather as failures to recognize political or ethical responsibility.

scholarly journals Le délicat problème des restes humains en archéologie

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-209
Author(s):  
Philippe Charlier
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

The problem I am interested in is above all that of the biomedical management of human remains in archaeology, these ancient artifacts “unlike any other”, these “atypical patients”. In the following text, I will examine, with an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropological, philosophical and medical), how it is possible to work on human remains in archaeology, but also how to manage their storage after study. Working in archaeology is already a political problem (in the Greek sense of the word, i.e., it literally involves the city), and one could refer directly to Laurent Olivier’s work on the politics of archaeological excavations during the Third Reich and the spread of Nazi ideology based on excavation products and anthropological studies. But in addition, working on human remains can also pose political problems, and we paid the price in my team when we worked on Robespierre’s death mask (the reconstruction of the face having created a real scandal on the part of the French far left) but also when we worked on Henri IV’s head (its identification having considerably revived the historical clan quarrel between Orléans and Bourbon). Working on human remains is therefore anything but insignificant.

Same-Sex Relationships and Anglo-Canadian Choice of Law: An Argument for Universal Validity

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 103-136
Author(s):  
Wendy A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Choice Of Law ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Face

SummaryThe distinction between formal and essential validity in Anglo-Canadian choice of law regarding marriage is an illogical bifurcation that unnecessarily invalidates same-sex relationships contracted in foreign jurisdictions. The Supreme Court of Canada has recently reformulated certain rules of private international law, taking into account both the constitutional and sub-constitutional imperatives inherent in a federal setting and the need for order and fairness when co-ordinating diversity in the face of increasing globalization. Reform of the choice of law rules regarding the validity of foreign marriages should proceed accordingly with the result being that a marriage valid where celebrated is valid everywhere. No principled reason exists to deny recognition to same-sex relationships validly contracted in other jurisdictions, nor to differentiate between the rights and obligations arising from the legal status of same-sex and different-sex relationships.

scholarly journals Share of death: Care crosses camp

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-648
Author(s):  
Georgios Tsagdis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Total Power ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Death Care

The essay thematises the question of care in conditions of total power - not merely extra muros, in the everyday life of the Third Reich, but in its most radical articulation, the concentration camp. Drawing inspiration from Todorov?s work, the essay engages with Levinas, Agamben, Derrida and Nancy, to investigate Heidegger?s determination of Dasein?s horizon through a solitary confrontation with death. Drawing extensively on primary testimonies, the essay shows that when the enclosure of the camp became the Da of existence, care assumed a radical significance as the link between the death of another and the death of oneself. In the face of an apparatus of total power and its attempt to individuate and isolate death, the sharing of death in the figure of care remained one?s most inalienable act of resistance and the last means to hold on to death as something that could be truly one?s own.

Literacy And Power Of Words In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
ANCY THRESIA N K
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Face ◽  
Small Story ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Power Of Words

The work selected for the study, The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak, belongs to the category of indirect Holocaust literature.The Book Thief is a moving story written by Markus Zusak from the German perspective of everyday civilian hardships and survival under the Third Reich. It celebrates the power of words and love in the face of unutterable suffering. This is the tale of the book thief, as narrated by death. It’s just a small story about, amongst other things: a girl, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.The most important theme in “The Book Thief” is the idea that words can give people a sense of security, power and expression. The first theme is the power of words accomplished by the book thief Liesel.

The German Minority in Inter-War Yugoslavia

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Peter Mentzel
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ethnic Germans ◽  
German Minority ◽  
The Third Reich

The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes inherited a considerable number of Germans along with its ex-Habsburg territories when it was established in December 1918. The two most important German communities in inter-war Yugoslavia were the Germans of Slovenia and the Germans of the Vojvodina and Croatia-Slavonia, the so-called Donau Schwaben (Swabians). There were also scattered pockets of ethnic Germans in Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Yugoslavian ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche), like the other Yugoslavian non-Slav minorities, were objects of discrimination by the Yugoslavian government. The Slovenian German community responded to this hostility by developing a virulent German nationalism which, after 1933, rapidly turned into Nazism. The Swabian community, on the other hand, generally tried to cooperate with the central government in Belgrade. The Swabians remained rather ambivalent toward the rising Nazi movement until the tremendous successes of the Third Reich in 1938 made Nazism irresistibly attractive. In the face of the government's anti-German policies, why did each of these German communities manifest such different attitudes towards the Yugoslav state during the inter-war period? This article will show how several factors of history, demography, and geography combined to produce the different reactions of the two groups.

Jewish Frontkämpfer and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Michael Geheran
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Other ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The One

This chapter examines the changes to Jewish war veterans' legal status after the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and the ways in which many of these men tried to retain their sense of Germanness in the face of intensifying state-sponsored terror and persecution. Although the Nazis succeeded in banning Jews from the civil service and most veterans' organizations, this did not mean that Jewish veterans were abruptly cast to the margins of German public life. Not all Germans shared Himmler's radical vision of a racially purified Volksgemeinschaft. This inconsistency in experience — persecution on the one hand, and limited solidarity with the German public on the other — obscured the gravity of the Nazi threat, leading many Jewish veterans to contemplate accommodation with the Third Reich.

The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership.

1972 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
John Weiss ◽  
Joachim C. Fest ◽  
Michael Bullock ◽  
Hermann Graml ◽  
Hans Mommsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich

scholarly journals El interés casacional objetivo como requisito único a acreditar en los escritos de preparación de recursos de casación ante la Sala 3.ª del Tribunal Supremo. Un análisis de la incipiente jurisprudencia de la Sala de Admisión del Alto Tribunal tras la entrada en vigor de la LO 7/2015

2017 ◽  
pp. 469-493
Author(s):  
David GARCÍA CASTRO
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Objective Interest ◽  
The Right ◽  
Unique Condition ◽  
The Way

LABURPENA: Botere Judizialari buruzko uztailaren 1eko 6/1985 Lege Organikoa aldatu duen 07/2015 Lege Organikoa indarrean jarri izanak irauli egin du Auzitegi Nagusiko hirugarren Salaren aurreko kasazio-errekurtsoa, antolakuntzako, legezko, prozesuzko eta prozedurazko berrikuntza garrantzitsuak sartu baititu. Horien artean, auziak onartzeko betekizun bakar gisa kasazio-interes objektiboa sartu izana nabarmentzen da. Legegileak ahalegina egin du bai zantzuen kasuak zehazteko (Administrazioarekiko Auzien Jurisdikzioa arautzen duen Legearen 88.2. artikulua), bai kasazio-intereseko ustekizunak zehazteko (Administrazioarekiko Auzien Jurisdikzioa arautzen duen Legearen 88.3. artikulua). Hala ere, kontzeptu berri hori sartu izanak zalantzak eragin ditu kasazio-interesaren kontzeptuaren eta interes hori egiaztatzeko moduaren inguruan. Auzitegi Nagusiko hirugarren Salaren onarpen-sekzioaren jurisprudentzia hasiberriaren azterketan zentratzen da lan hau, kasazio‑interesaren kontzeptua eta interes hori egiaztatzeko modua zehazteari begira. RESUMEN: La entrada en vigor de la LO 07/2015, por la que se reforma la LO 6/1985, de 1 de julio, del Poder Judicial, ha dado un vuelco al recurso de casación ante la Sala Tercera del Tribunal Supremo, introduciendo relevantes novedades organizativas, legales, procesales y procedimentales, entre los que destaca la incorporación del interés casacional objetivo como requisito único de admisión de los asuntos. La introducción de este nuevo concepto, pese al esfuerzo realizado por el legislador para concretar supuestos de indicios (art. 88.2 LJCA) y presunciones de interés casacional (art. 88.3 LJCA), ha generado dudas sobre el concepto mismo de interés casacional y sobre la forma de acreditarlo. Este trabajo se centra en analizar la incipiente jurisprudencia de la Sección de Admisión de la Sala Tercera del TS para concretar el concepto de interés casacional y la forma de acreditarloen los escritos de preparación de recursos de casación. ABSTRACT: The entry into force of Organic Act 7/2015 that amends Organic Act from July 1st of the Judiciary has drastically changed the right of appeal before the Supreme Court Third Chamber by introducing relevant organisational, legal, procedural and of proceeding novelties, among which stands the incorporation of objective interest for appeal as the unique condition for the admission of the cases. The introduction of that new concept, in spite of the legislator effort to establish specific cases for indications (art. 88.2 LJCA) and presumptions for the interest for appeal (art. 88.3 LJCA) has created doubts about the concept itself of interest for appeal and the way to demonstrate it. This work is focused on analyzing the incipient case law by the section for admissions within the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court in order to specify the concept of interest for appeal and the form to demonstrate it in the written pleadings of preparation of the rights of appeal.

scholarly journals Refleksje na temat książki Sebastiana Fikusa „Trudny spadek dysydentów III Rzeszy w Republice Federalnej Niemiec”

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
Maria Zmierczak
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Other ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The Third ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The One

REFLECTIONS ON SEBASTIAN FIKUS’S TRUDNY SPADEK DYSYDENTÓW III RZESZY W REPUBLICE FEDERALNEJ NIEMIEC DIFFICULT LEGACY OF THE THIRD REICH’S DISSIDENTS IN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANYThe reviewed book contains a description of state policy towards the German opponents of Hitler’s regime after the fall of the Third Reich. The death sentences of military courts, Volksgericht and special war courts were treated as legal and the victims and their descendants were not vindicated until 2009. It means that they figured as criminals for more than 50 years. The author suggests that this was connected mainly with economic reasons and the need to restore the national economy. The commentary of the reviewer underlines the importance of other aspects: on the one hand, it was not easy to declare that the Federal Republic of Germany is a new state and to break the continuity of state, especially in the face of the existing German Democratic Republic. On the other hand, it is not easy to declare that the law was not legal, and to punish judges or officers who had acted according to the legal prescriptions; not to mention the old sentence lex retro non agit. 

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