Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar GermanyUniversity of Michigan Press, 2005 - 443 páginas "This book reads like a legal thriller; it will leave you thinking about the nature of justice and inspired by the human spirit." -Sister Helen Prejean Justice Imperiled is the story of the brilliant lawyer Max Hirschberg, one of Germany's most courageous defenders of justice in the face of Hitler's rise to power. Hirschberg lived an extraordinary life at a defining moment in German and European history. By the time he fled Nazi Germany in 1934, he had argued a series of cases in Munich's courtrooms that shed light on the history of political justice in pre-Nazi Germany and, by extension, the miscarriage of justice in all Western democracies. Hirschberg was a rare figure: he fought for cases that reflected the new democracy rather than the old monarchy, that valued equality rather than hierarchy, and that showed respect for workers as well as aristocrats. Throughout the Weimar period Hirschberg squared off in court against Munich's conservatives, reactionaries, and Nazis-twice facing Hitler himself. As he litigated politically charged disputes, he also began fighting to reverse the criminal convictions of innocent defendants and to study what mistaken verdicts teach us about the criminal justice system as a whole. In a unique blend of biography and courtroom drama, Justice Imperiled captures the excitement of Hirschberg's actual cases and presents legal battles that still rage, in different circumstances, to this day. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Childhood Law and War 18831918 | 19 |
The Crystallization of Hirschbergs Political | 29 |
The Emergence of Hirschbergs Politically | 46 |
A LeftWing Lawyer | 56 |
REVOLUTIONARIES COUNTER | 65 |
29 | 73 |
The Fechenbach Prosecution | 86 |
The Crises of War Confidence and Democracy | 228 |
A Brawl in the City Streets The Schott Prosecution | 243 |
Crossing Swords with Hitler | 254 |
A Brawl at a Village Inn The Murnau Prosecution | 273 |
Taking the Offensive against AntiSemites | 280 |
Honor Violence and a Brawl among Nazis | 289 |
Nazi Law and Lawlessness Hirschbergs Final Year | 297 |
Between Escape and Safety The Years | 317 |
The Fight to Undo the Fechenbach Verdict | 110 |
A German Dreyfus Affair The Rule of Law | 132 |
From Political to Nonpolitical Justice | 181 |
Of Love and Death The Pfeuffer and Götz Cases | 193 |
Falsehoods in the Countryside The Rettenbeck | 210 |
Hirschberg Freud and Other Germans | 221 |
Freedom Democracy and Justice 193964 | 325 |
Abbreviations | 337 |
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Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany Douglas G. Morris Visualização de excertos - 2005 |
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