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While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination. The chapters address why German lawyers and jurists were attracted to Nazism; how their support of the regime resulted from a combination of ideological conviction,

History of the law --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1930-1939 --- Justice, Administration of --- Law --- National socialism --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jewish lawyers --- Jews --- Justice --- Droit --- Nazisme --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Avocats juifs --- Juifs --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Persecutions --- Administration --- Histoire --- Aspect moral --- Persécutions --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Persécutions --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Lawyers, Jewish --- Lawyers --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Nazi persecution --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Third Reich, 1933-1945 --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)