Fragility of Law - Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 19401945

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor David Fraser Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: David Fraser, David Fraser, David (University of Nottingham Fraser, Fraser David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2008
• EAN: 9780415477611
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47761-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Belgium, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater