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1 online resource (342 pages) |
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Studies in Central European Histories Ser |
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Studies in Central European Histories Ser
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction The Historical Situation of Law in the Federal Republic; 0.1 Politics and the Law; 0.2 The Centrality of Law after the Collapse of 1945; 0.3 Institutional Structures in German Law: Basic Law and the Federal Constitutional Court; 0.4 Statute Rather Than Common Law; 0.5 Anomalies in a Changing Legal Code; 0.6 History and the Law in the Federal Republic; Chapter 1 The Trial of Friedrich Flick; 1.1 Understanding the NS State; 1.2 Who Was Flick and on What Charges Did He Appear?; 1.3 Legal Issues; 1.4 The Sentence |
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1.5 Assessing the Verdict1.6 The Repercussions of the Flick Trial; Chapter 2 Adjusting the Political Landscape: Banning the kpd; 2.1 The Banning of Political Parties; 2.2 Outlawing the kpd; 2.3 The Deliberations of the BVerfG; 2.4 The Legal Consequences of the Ban; 2.5 Reflections on Constitutional Courts and Politics; Chapter 3 The Lüth Case -- at What Price Freedom of Expression?; 3.1 The Starting-Point: Artists and Nazism; 3.2 The Call for a Boycott; 3.3 The Decision of the BVerfG; 3.4 Repercussions; Chapter 4 Four Murders, and Reflections on Court-Reporting in the Federal German Press |
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4.1 Reporting the Law4.2 Precedents in Weimar; 4.3 The Federal Republic; 4.4 A Routine Murder; 4.5 Rosemarie Nitribitt; 4.6 Two Women in Court; 4.7 Hetzel's Campaign for a Retrial; 4.8 Conclusions; Chapter 5 Personal Matters in Court: Homosexuality and Abortion; 5.1 The Legacy of the Past; 5.2 Post-War Shifts of Policy; 5.3 The Frankfurt Homosexual Trials; 5.4 218 in the Federal Republic; 5.5 'It's Not You, Doctor, Who Have Offended Me, but the Judges'; 5.6 The Campaign against 218 Moves Forward; 5.7 The Last Razzia; Chapter 6 The Spiegel Affair; 6.1 The Dimensions of the Affair |
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6.2 Old Antagonisms6.3 The Principal Legal Issue: Military Secrecy; 6.4 A Brief Consideration of the BVerfG Judgment; Chapter 7 The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial; 7.1 At Last the Silence Is Broken; 7.2 The Implications of the Eichmann Trial; 7.3 Auschwitz-Birkenau; 7.4 Preparing for the Trial; 7.5 Gathering Momentum; 7.6 A New Type of Trial; 7.7 Individual Moments from the Proceedings; 7.8 Sentencing and Final Considerations; 7.9 Final Comments; Chapter 8 The 1970s: the Campaign against Radicals -- Ideology Becomes the Crime; 8.1 Prologue; 8.2 Background to the 1970s |
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8.3 The Legal Basis of the Berufsverbot8.4 Three Individual Cases; 8.5 The Legal Issues; 8.6 The BVerfG Judgment; 8.7 Dissenting Judges; 8.8 Final Thoughts; Chapter 9 Chasing after Sympathizers -- Threats to the Rule of Law; 9.1 Reactions to an Act of Terror; 9.2 An Unwanted Requiem; 9.3 Sympathizing with Terror?; 9.4 The Knives Come Out; 9.5 A Chequered History of Controlling Free Speech; Chapter 10 The Rub of the Green -- a Range of Environmental Cases; 10.1 Historical Prologue; 10.2 Environmental Protection in the Federal Republic; 10.3 Violence among the Trees |
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10.4 Chemical Pollution -- 'Everyone the Loser' |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Trials -- Germany (West)
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Trials
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Germany (West)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004414471 |
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9004414479 |
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