The anti-Nazi origins of militant democracy : Germany’s Constitutional Tribunes / Samuel Miner Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miner, Samuel, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional courts--Germany.

Constitutional courts.

Constitutional law--Germany.

Constitutional law.

Denazification--Germany.

Denazification.

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.

Anti-Nazi movement.

Democracy--Germany.

Democracy.

National socialism--Germany--Influence.

National socialism.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This book is a collective biography of the anti-Nazis who shaped postwar Germany's constitution by implementing a "militant democracy." These anti-Nazis empowered courts to review legislation as a way to try Nazi war criminals and purge Nazi ideology from German law"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

2 Emigration and the anti-totalitarian moment

3 Resistance, persecution, and the search for a popular front

4 Allied occupation policy and denazification

5 The first German Nazi-era trials and the continuities of German law

6 The rule of experts: preparing South German constitutions

7 The return of the political: the state constitutions in practice and the Basic Law

8 The establishment of the Federal Constitutional Court

9 The Lüth case

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

9781009775267