Civil service lawyers and the Holocaust: the case of Wilhelm Stuckart
TitleCivil service lawyers and the Holocaust: the case of Wilhelm Stuckart
Author
Call number342.430873/0002
Object number08848b
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherBerghahn
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp37-61
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780857457806
NotesArticle from the book 'The law in Nazi Germany: ideology, opportunism, and the perversion of justice.'pp37-61
Description
Jasch describes the life and career of one of the most prominent civil servants involved in Nazi anti-Jewish policy - Wilhelm Stuckart - who served as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, which exercised powers over the formulation and implementation of racial laws in the 1930s. He was instrumental in drafting the Nuremberg Laws and participated in the notorious Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942 where the "Final Solution" was discussed
