Terrifying Judges: Justice During the Nazi Era

Author: (German) Ingo Müller
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: What responsibility should the German judicial system bear for the appalling Nazi crimes before and during World War II? On this issue, the German legal academia has long avoided addressing it after the war. This book is a comprehensive and in-depth exploration and critique of the judicial theory and practice during the Nazi era by a post-war German scholar. Based on solid historical facts, author Ingo Müller boldly investigates the responsibility that the German judicial system (especially the courts) should bear for Nazi crimes, thereby demonstrating from the opposite side the necessity of fundamental judicial principles and due process for a rule of law state. The book, published in Germany in the late 1980s, topped the bestseller list for a long time, was quickly translated into multiple languages, and gained widespread popularity with rave reviews; at the same time, it also sparked considerable controversy.