Equality before the Law? The Intermarriage Debate in Post-Nazi Germany

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Law

Austrian and Czech neuroscience becomes “coordinated” under National Socialism

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-318
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Zeidman
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Racial Hygiene ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Neurology Clinic ◽  
The Law ◽  
Hereditary Conditions

The Austrian neuroscience consolidation came swiftly and terribly on “non-Aryans.” Austrian anti-Semitism was arguably even more virulent than in Germany. And laws had already escalated in Nazi Germany to the point that Jewish physicians at most could only treat other Jews as derogatorily called “sick treaters”; these laws were instantly applicable in “annexed” Austria, with no stepwise progressive disfranchisement. Even “Aryan” neurologists who were thought to be unsympathetic to the Nazi movement were dismissed shortly after the “annexation.” The Vienna university neurology clinic was taken over primarily by SS neurologists who had been “illegal” Nazis before the annexation and were extremely dedicated to the Nazi cause. At least one, Walther Birkmayer, spoke of expanding the sterilization law to other hereditary conditions not stipulated already by the law. At least nine racial or political neuroscientist replacements, including directors of institutes, led to racial hygiene consequences, including execution of sterilization and euthanasia programs.

Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany. By Joan L. Clinefelter. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2005. Pp. x+182. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 1-84520-200-7.

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-322
Author(s):  
Charles E. McClelland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Diminishing Returns ◽  
German Art ◽  
The Law

The law of diminishing returns can arguably be applied to historical research as well as larger economic enterprises. What had previously been described in a few paragraphs and notes of such standard works as those by Paul O. Rave and Hildegard Brenner has now been brought to the light of day in a full monographic treatment of Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder and the Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft (German Art Society). For those attracted by the majestic sweep of Joan Clinefelter's book title, however, a more accurate (if still overstated) description is found in the title of her 1995 Indiana University doctoral dissertation, “The German Art Society and the Battle for ‘Pure German’ Art, 1920–1945.”

La stérilisation hitlerienne Un testo inedito di Camillo Berneri

2009 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Hereditary Diseases ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Law ◽  
Keywords Eugenics

- Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist, exiled in France during the fascist era, wrote in French this unpublished essay. This paper examines the law - passed in Nazi Germany in July 1933 - which made compulsory the sterilization of persons suffering from "hereditary diseases", such as psychiatric disorders. According to Berneri the roots of this law can be traced in the European (and American) debate on eugenic practices. Keywords: eugenics, sterilization, racism, national socialism, Camillo Bern

From the Sentimental Story of the State to the Verbrecherstaat, Or, the Rise of the Atrocity Paradigm

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Lawrence Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
The State ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
The Law ◽  
Atrocity Crimes ◽  
Effects Of Violence

By the terms of the ‘sentimental story of the state’ fashioned by thinkers such as Hobbes, the state represented the greatest bulwark against the disordering effects of violence, and obedience to the law represented the supreme virtue of the pacified citizenry. Nazi Germany fundamentally upset the sentimental story; in the parlance of Karl Jaspers, Nazi Germany was a Verbrecherstaat, a criminal state. The Nuremberg trial treated aggression as the paradigmatic crime of the criminal state; subsequent developments in international criminal law view acts of atrocity—crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes—as the paradigmatic state crimes. In this chapter, it is argued that this shift—from treating aggression to treating acts of atrocity as the paradigmatic state-sponsored crimes—has unsettled basic legal categories, such as the criminal/enemy dyad and the distinction between policing and war-making. The unsettling of these categories leaves, the chapter argues, international criminal law in a vexed state.

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