Fragility of Law - Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945

List of contents

1. The Taxonomies of an Anti-Jewish Legal Order 2. The Secretaries-General: Passive Collaboration, Belgian Law and the Jews, 1940–45 3. The Fragility of Law: Anti-Jewish Decrees and Belgian Legal Elites 4. Aryanization, Legalized Theft and Belgian Legality 5. Belgian Municipalities and the Introduction of Anti-Jewish Decrees 6. Brussels: Passive Collaboration and the Jews of the Capital 7. Communicating, Informing, and Deciding: The City of Brussels and Passive Collaboration 1941–44 8. Liège and Its Jews: "Hebrew and Polish Stores," June 1940 9. Hirsch & Co: A Case Study of Aryanization in Belgium 10. Belgian Lawyers, Belgian Judges, Jewish Cases 11. Constitutional Patriotism and the Fragility of Law

About the author

David Fraser

Summary

The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the second world war, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft – through Aryanization – of Jewish property.

Additional text

"Based on extensive archival research, the book offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history." Socio-Legal Newsletter, Summer 2012

Product details

• Authors: David Fraser, David (University of Nottingham Fraser, Fraser David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9780415542357
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54235-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Jurisprudence, Religion: general, Systems of law, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Jewish Studies, Fascism & Nazism, Legal History, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, History and Archaeology, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Armed Conflict, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust