Justice imperiled : the anti-Nazi lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar, Germany / Douglas G. Morris.
Morris, Douglas G.
2005
KK185.H57 M67 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Justice imperiled : the anti-Nazi lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar, Germany / Douglas G. Morris.
Author
Morris, Douglas G.
ISBN
047211476X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114764 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
xiv, 443 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
KK185.H57 M67 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.43/0092
B
Summary
"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."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-424) and index.
Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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pt. 1. Nonpolitical foundations & political maturation (1883-1922). Childhood, law, and war (1883-1918)
The crystallization of Hirschberg's political consciousness (1918-19)
The emergence of Hirschberg's politically active lawyering (1919)
A left-wing lawyer in right-wing Munich (1920-22)
pt. 2. Revolutionaries & counter-revolutionaries before the bar of injustice (1922-25). Sitting in judgment on Germany's war guilt : the Fechenbach-Cossmann libel lawsuit
"Left-wing treason" : the Fechenbach prosecution
The fight to undo the Fechenbach verdict
A German "Dreyfus affair" : the rule of law, reaction, and honor in the Fechenbach case
The antiwar veteran and the militant monk : the stab-in-the-back trial
From political to nonpolitical justice
pt. 3. Freeing the innocent : nonpolitical miscarriages of justice (1925-34). Of love and death : the Pfeuffer and Götz cases
Falsehoods in the countryside : the Rettenbeck, perjury conspiracy, and Konrad S. cases
Hirschberg, Freud, and other Germans
The crises of war, confidence, and democracy in the Weimar Republic's nonpolitical justice
pt. 4. Fighting Hitler, Nazis & anti-semites (1926-33). A brawl in the city streets : the Schoot persecution
Crossing swords with Hitler
A brawl at a village inn : the Murnau persecution
Taking the offensive against anti-semites
Honor, violence, and a brawl among Nazis
pt. 5. Three countries, two continents, one ideal of justice (1933-64). Nazi law and lawlessness : Hirschberg's final year in Germany (1933-34)
Between escape and safety : the years in Italy (1934-39)
Freedom, democracy, and justice (1939-64).

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