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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
·1 hr 4 min·5 clips
How did Ernst Fraenkel practice law, write illegal articles, and avoid arrest in Nazi Germany for over five years?
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A clear look at how law and violence worked together to drive Jewish lawyers out of Nazi Germany.
Douglas Morris offers a sharp account of Ernst Fraenkel's career and the way Nazi power moved through both force and law. The strongest section sets the "prerogative state" beside the "normative state" and makes the point without fuss: intimidation and legal procedure did not…
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You want a sharp account of how the prerogative state and the normative state worked together to push Jewish lawyers out under Nazi rule.
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