Discrimination, degradation, defiance: Jewish lawyers under Nazism

One further consequence of Nazi anti-Semitism was the exclusion of Jews from the German legal professions. This purge was not only a outcome of anti-Semitic race policy, but it was also closely connected with Nazi attacks on liberal elements in the German legal world. Jews had been closely identified with liberalism since the 19th century. Morris chronicles the measures taken by the regime to remove Jewish lawyers from the legal system.