Nazi Law

John J. Michalczyk is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, USA. He is the author of Filming the End of the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is also the editor of Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues (1994), Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees: Historical and Ethical Issues (1997) and, with SJ Raymond G. Helmick, Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing (2013).

This fine collection of essays explores how law came to serve as a tool of destruction in the Third Reich and as a means of moral reconstruction in the postwar years. It offers a timely and valuable intervention in ongoing debates about the capacity of law to deform and reform societies.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsForeword, Lorenz Reibling (Boston College, USA)AcknowledgementsIntroductionJohn J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)Part I - A Judicial System without Jews and without Justice1. Politics, Ethics and Natural Law in Early Twentieth Century Germany, 1900-1950, Douglas G. Morris (Federal Defenders NY, USA)2. Our Enemies Have No Rights: Carl Schmitt and the Two-Tiered System of Justice, Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)3. Defining the Jew: The Origins of the Nuremberg Laws, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy (University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany)4. Vichy France and the Nuremberg Laws, John Romeiser (University of Tennessee, USA)5. The Judenräte and the Nazi Racial Policies: Ethical issues in Claude Lanzmann’s Last of the Unjust (2013), Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (Haifa University, Israel)6. High Treason in the People’s Court, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)Part II - Hippocrates Abandoned by Nazi Doctors7. Resistance or Complicity: Medical and Religious Responses to Law under the Third Reich, Johnathan Kelly, Erin Miller and Michael A. Grodin (Boston University, USA)8. Homosexuality and the Law in the Third Reich, Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA)9. Physicians, Psychologists, and Lawyers as Torturers: From WWII to Post 9/11, George Annas and Sondra Crosby (Boston University School of Public Health, USA)10. Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust: Implications for Bioethics and Professionalism Education, Ashley Fernandes (Ohio State University, USA)Part III - Economic Policies and the Stripping of the Jewish Community11. The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government, David M. Crowe (Elon University, USA)12. Nazi Laws Used to Plunder Art and the Current Legal Tools Used to Unwind Looting, Leila Amineddoleh (Fordham University and New York University, USA)Part IV - A God Subverted by Nazi Policy13. The Hereafter versus the Here-and-Now: Catholicism under National Socialism, Kevin Spicer (Stonehill College, USA)14. Nazi Persecution of German Protestants, Christopher Probst (Maryville University, USA)15. Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Third Reich, Gerhard Besier (Dresden University, Germany)Part V - To the Victor Belongs Justice: At Nuremberg and Beyond16. German Courts in the Maelstrom of Criminal Guilt: Tracing the Rise of Collective Responsibility in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1963-2016, Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA)17. The Devil's Chemists on Trial: The American Prosecution of I.G. Farben at Nuremberg, Mark Spicka (Shippensburg University, USA)18. Nazi Experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States, Sandra H. Johnson (St. Louis University School of Law, USA)Epilogue, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)GlossaryBibliographyIndex