Legal sabotage Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany Douglas G. Morris, Federal Defenders of New York

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Douglas G., 1954- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in constitutional law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fraenkel, Ernst, 1898-1975.

Fraenkel, Ernst.

Lawyers--Germany--Biography.

Lawyers.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2020

Summary:

The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germany's great intellectuals. During the Weimar Republic he was a shrewd constitutional theorist for the Social Democrats and in post-World War II Germany a respected political scientist who worked to secure West Germany's new democracy. This book homes in on the most dramatic years of Fraenkel's life, when he worked within Nazi Germany actively resisting the regime, both publicly and secretly. As a lawyer, he represented political defendants in court. As a dissident, he worked in the underground. As an intellectual, he wrote his most famous work, The Dual State - a classic account of Nazi law and politics. This first detailed account of Fraenkel's career in Nazi Germany opens up a new view on anti-Nazi resistance - its nature, possibilities, and limits. With grit, daring and imagination, Fraenkel fought for freedom against an increasingly repressive regime

Contents:

Introduction

Setting the Scene of a Jewish Lawyer, Like Fraenkel, in Nazi Germany Fraenkel as a Social Democrat Practicing Law in Nazi Germany

Fraenkel as an Essayist Supporting the Illegal Underground

Fraenkel as a Scholar Renouncing the Nazi Regime's Dual State

Thinking about Legal Justifications for Sabotaging a Tyrannical Regime

Conclusion : The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version Morris, Douglas G., 1954- Legal sabotage

ISBN:

9781108872324

1108872328

9781108890373

1108890377

OCLC:

1135088273

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