Law

Alexander Hoeppel

NS-Justiz und Rechtsbeugung

Die strafrechtliche Ahndung deutscher Justizverbrechen nach 1945

[Nazi Justice and Violation of the Law. The Criminal Punishment of German Judicial Crime after 1945.]

2019. XX, 585 pages.

Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts 109

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In the aftermath of 1945, why were practitioners of law rarely sentenced for the crimes they committed during the Nazi era? Was it because the judges themselves were former Nazi party members or sympathisers? For Alexander Hoeppel, this train of thought does not go far enough: his study reveals that German jurisprudence actually went to the extent of adopting a legal doctrine that shielded judges and other legal professionals from being prosecuted for crimes committed in office – and continues to do so even to this day.
In the aftermath of 1945, why were practitioners of law rarely sentenced for the crimes they committed during the Nazi era? Was it because the judges themselves were former Nazi party members or sympathisers? For Alexander Hoeppel, this train of thought does not go far enough: his study reveals that German jurisprudence actually went to the extent of adopting a legal doctrine that shielded judges and other legal professionals from being prosecuted for crimes committed in office – and continues to do so even to this day.
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Alexander Hoeppel Geboren 1984; Studium der Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, der Politischen Wissenschaft und der Philosophie; Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter am Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Ethik und Wissenschaftskommunikation an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Projektleiter des Model United Nations Projektes der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAUMUN); Lehrbeauftragter für Verhandlungslehre ebenda; seit 2017 selbstständiger Verhandlungstrainer; 2018 Promotion.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fü Rechtsgeschichte (Germanistische Abteilung) — 139 (2022), 391–396 (Matthias Gemählich)
In: Zeitschr.f.d.ges.Strafrechtswiss. — 133 (2021), 1144 (Arnd Koch)
In: Kritische Justiz — 54 (2021), 110–116 (Jörg Arnold)
In: Journal der Juristischen Zeitgeschichte (JoJZG) — 15 (2021), 69–71 (Christoph Gusy)
In: H-Soz-u-Kult — https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28738 (1/2020) (Edith Raim)
In: Goltdammer's Archiv für Strafrecht — 167 (2020), 386–389 (Jens Lehmann)
In: FAZ — 3. April 2020, 10 (Kai Ambos)
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