By Jeffrey S. Gaab
ISBN-10: 0820442836
ISBN-13: 9780820442839
In 1945, on the finish of global struggle II, American career forces started the daunting job of rebuilding democratic society in war-shattered Germany. Key to this reconstruction used to be the institution of a democratically orientated criminal method. Justice Delayed examines how the U.S. tried to reconstitute a democratic felony approach in Bavaria at the ruins of Hitler's «thousand-year Reich.»
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13 This was the opening act in the creation of the National Socialist terror state. While it is true that van der Lubbe played a role in the fire, and that there is evidence to support the theory that more than one person was involved, the court trying the case acquitted all of the defendants except van der Lubbe, who received the death sentence. ”14 As the economy revived, the regime instituted policies that appeared to improve substantially the working conditions of legal professionals. Yet in Hitler’s empire, improvement for some meant ruin for many.
The minister of justice in each state headed the judicial apparatus, including judicial and administrative personnel. The “Plan for the Administra- 50 Justice in Chaos tion of Justice” made the minister of justice responsible for ensuring the fair and prompt administration of justice.
Among other stipulations, the laws forbade marriage between “Jews and citizens of German or related kinds of blood” and “extramarital intercourse”44 and generally deprived Jews of any privileges of citizenship in Germany. The secret police accomplished what legislation alone could not achieve. In 1937 the Ministry of Justice came to a “gentleman’s agreement” with the Gestapo whereby torture could be used on defendants under “intensive interrogation” and the Ministry of Justice agreed not to prefer charges.