Justice and Nazi crimes

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Two volumes of the edition of "GDR Justice and Nazi Crimes"

Justice and Nazi crimes is published in bound volumes collection of judgments German courts to crimes of National Socialism with homicide , committed during the Second World War in the period from September 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945 and includes both proceedings for Endphaseverbrechen and Crimes in the Holocaust .

Contents of the volumes

The volumes are based on the work of a research group in the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam and are edited by Dick de Mildt and Christiaan F. Rüter .

The first volume in the collection was published in 1968. 49 volumes had been published by 2012, including reproductions of historical documents. The names of the perpetrators, witnesses and victims are usually not mentioned but are replaced by initial letters. The collection contains over 1500 court decisions from criminal proceedings in the American, British and French occupation zones and the Federal Republic .

The GDR Justice and Nazi Crimes Collection was published from 2002 to 2009 and comprises 14 volumes. It contains over 1,600 judgments from criminal proceedings in the Soviet zone of occupation and the GDR as well as information on rehabilitation proceedings in the Federal Republic from 1991.

With a large amount of research results on Nazi crimes, the collection of judgments offers an important source on individual questions of Nazi violent crimes, on the legal coming to terms with the past with regard to the “ Third Reich ” from 1945 and questions of the perpetrator and victim groups.

The more than 600 judgments of the first 22 volumes of Justice and Nazi Crimes with judgments from 1945 to 1966 are divided into twelve crime groups: I. Euthanasia (5% of the judgments), II. Desk crimes (1%), III. War crimes (7%), IV. Judicial crimes (3%), V. Crimes against German soldiers (4%), VI. Crimes of mass destruction by Einsatzgruppen (3%), VII. Crimes of mass destruction in camps (4%), VIII. Other crimes of mass destruction (7%), IX. Nazi violent crimes in camps (19%), X. crimes of the final phase (36%), XI. Denunciation (7%) and XII. Other Nazi crimes (4%).

The entire collection of judgments has also been available online since the end of 2008.

review

  • In the newsletter - information of the Fritz Bauer Institute , No. 15, autumn 1998 it says: "[the] connection of the judgment collection with the author's current research results on the main topics of 'euthanasia' crimes in the Third Reich, desk crimes, judicial crimes and denunciations [...] shows once more that the collection of judgments offers a far-reaching 'fund' on the subject of Nazi crimes and which additional aspects can be included from today's perspective for interpretation and classification. Overall, one can see the new publications in the field of justice and Nazi crimes as a plea for the judgments to be considered more in comparative research than before. "

expenditure

  • Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of (West) German criminal convictions for Nazi homicide crimes, 1945–2012. 49 volumes, Amsterdam, Munich 1968–2012.
Note: The entire edition has a peculiarity: The serial numbers-from-to are given on the title page of the respective volume and on the spine of the book, the number-to is actually the first number of the following volume.
  • Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): GDR justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of (East) German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes, 1945–1998. 14 volumes. Amsterdam, Munich 2002–2009.

literature

  • Raimond Reiter: 30 years of “Justice and Nazi Crimes”. The topicality of a collection of judgments. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1998, ISBN 3-631-33799-X .
  • Dick de Mildt (Ed.): Crime complex: Nazi euthanasia. The East and West German criminal sentences since 1945. 2 volumes. University Press, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-8964-072-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction . In: Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966 . Volume I, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter. University Press, Amsterdam 1968, p. XX.
  2. ↑ Due to the abbreviation of the name, the judgments can only be read to a limited extent. However, since the judgments with those involved were also quoted or commented on in the press or in historical research, many judgments can be assigned to real names with a certain amount of research.
  3. ^ GDR justice and Nazi crimes. Retrieved August 15, 2013 .
  4. ^ Overview of GDR justice and Nazi crimes
  5. ↑ from: Newsletter - Information from the Fritz Bauer Institute No. 15 Autumn 1998 ( Memento from April 27, 2001 in the Internet Archive )