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Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry
Friedlander explores how the Nazi programme of secretly
exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the
systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the
so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model
for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. The
Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and the
handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute,
inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the
assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander
shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the
1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the
war. He also makes clear that the killing centres where the
handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the
extermination camps. Based on extensive archival research, the book
also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and
judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the
nature of popular opposition.
This book examines the use of national and international law to
prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century
state-sponsored genocide and mass murder crimes, the paradigmatic
instance of state-sponsored criminality and genocide in the
twentieth century. In its various essays, the contributors
reconstruct the historical historical setting of the crimes
committed under the aegis of the Nazi regime and examine why
postwar adjudication took place only within limits, within the
national and international judicial forums responsible for
prosecuting perpetrators. The topics discussed include the impact
of the Nazi justice system on postwar justice, postwar legal
proceedings against those who committed war crimes and genocide,
the work of the Nuremberg tribunal and Allied trials, and judicial
investigations and prosecutions in East Germany, West Germany, and
Austria. They span the postwar period up to contemporary US legal
efforts to deport Nazi criminals within its borders and libel
trials against Holocaust denials in London and Canadian courts and
libel suits brought by Holocaust deniers in British and Canadian
courts.
This book examines the use of national and international law to
prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century
state-sponsored genocide and mass murder crimes, the paradigmatic
instance of state-sponsored criminality and genocide in the
twentieth century. Its various essays, the contributors reconstruct
the historical historical setting of the crimes committed under the
aegis of the Nazi regime and examine why postwar adjudication took
place only within limits, within the national and international
judicial forums responsible for prosecuting perpetrators. The
topics discussed include the impact of the Nazi justice system on
postwar justice, postwar legal proceedings against those who
committed war crimes and genocide, the work of the Nuremberg
tribunal and Allied trials, and judicial investigations and
prosecutions in East Germany, West Germany, and Austria. They span
the postwar period up to contemporary U.S. legal efforts to deport
Nazi criminals within its borders and libel trials against
Holocaust denials in London and Canadian courts and libel suits
brought by Holocaust deniers in British and Canadian courts, and
they reveal new perspectives on the present and future implications
of these trials.
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