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The Fragility of Law - Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (Paperback)
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The Fragility of Law - Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (Paperback)
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The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second
World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became
implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its
Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of
Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of
political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for
antisemitic persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of
Belgian Jews was Belgian. Based on extensive archival research in
Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law
offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing
and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian
legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of
international law found in the Hague Convention and those
guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution
to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However,
they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at
stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert
historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the
country's Jewish population, the mythology of "passive
collaboration" which has dominated Belgian historiography and
accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically
rethought.
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