Hitler's justice : the courts of the Third Reich

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Prologue. "Time to raise an outcry" : German judges oppose the forces of reaction

The enforcement of conformity

The judges of the Weimar republic

The German legal system from 1933 to 1945. The Reichstag Fire trial

Jurists "coordinate" themselves

The legal system during the state of emergency

Treason and treachery : political opposition and the courts

Purges at the bar

Nazi jurisprudence

Civil servant become the Führer's political troops

Creation of the concentration camps

"Protecting the race"

The courts and eugenics

The euthanasia program

"Defenders of the law" : the Supreme Court as a court of appeals

Arbitrary decisions in everyday life

The People's Court

Summary courts of the "Inner Front" : jurisdiction of the Special Courts

"Correcting" decisions : the judicial system and the police

The legal officers' corps : military courts in the Second World War

Resistance from the bench

The aftermath. Collapse and reconstruction

Restoration in the legal system

Coming to terms with the past

The opposition goes on trial again

Law schools

Punishing Nazi criminals

The deserving and the undeserving : reparations for the criminals and their victims

Jurists on trial

Injustice confirmed

A latter-day "condemnation" of Nazi justice

An attempt at an explanation