Laws, legislation, and court decisions had enormous effects on the lives of many people during and immediately after the years of Nazi rule and World War II. The Nazi regime used the German legal system to enact discriminatory and murderous policies. However, law and the courts also protected citizens in nations not totally subjugated by the Nazis. Ultimately some Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators were held accountable for their crimes after the war.
law & the courts
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLaw against Overcrowding
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustLothrop Stoddard: "In a Eugenics Court"
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMoyshe Feygnboym: "Why Historical Commissions?"
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNuremberg Trial Testimony of Avrom Sutzkever
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the HolocaustOral History with Drexel Sprecher
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Niklas Frank
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Rose Brunswic
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOrder on "Measures against the Jews"
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhoto Collage from a Nazi Magazine
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePolice Report on Fritz Kitzing
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Rühen Home for Children of Forced Laborers
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Exclusion of Jews in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleShoah Outtake with Inge Deutschkron
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSign Language Testimony of Helga Gross
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSterilization Order for August Alzen
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSworn Statement of Karl Willig