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Courtroom to revolutionary stage: performance and ideology in Weimar political trials

Henning Grunwald
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 1)
    • Historiography (page 4)
    • Rethinking Weimar political justice (page 12)
    • Definitions and sources (page 13)
    • Chapter structure (page 15)
  • 1. The Rosa Luxemburg Trials of 1914 and the Emergence of the Ideal Type of the Weimar Party Lawyer (page 17)
    • Wilhelmine legal culture and its discontents (page 19)
    • 'The best outcome is that where the party profits the most': The militarism trial and the revolution in Social Democrat defending (page 33)
    • Conclusion (page 44)
  • 2. 'Nursing Revolutionary Fighters' and 'Legal SA-Duty': Ten Political Lawyers (page 45)
    • Biographies (page 51)
    • Patterns of professional development (page 61)
    • 'Cleaning the toilet for Uncle Scrooge': party lawyers vs. their non-political peers (page 79)
    • Conclusion (page 89)
  • 3. 'To Fight the Class Struggle with the Bourgeois Courts with All Acridity': the Communist Party Legal Organization (page 92)
    • Communist legal aid: evolution and organizational structure (page 98)
    • Communist legal aid in practice (page 106)
    • Lawyers as agents of party control (page 123)
    • Conclusion (page 131)
  • 4. The Compliment of Imitation: The Rise of National-Socialist Legal Organizations (page 133)
    • (Mis-)Managing the Rathenau trial: The Reich League of German Nationalist Trial Lawyers (page 135)
    • Symbols without substance? The Patriotic Prisoners Aid/National Emergency Aid (page 141)
    • The Association of National Socialist German Lawyers (page 151)
  • 5. Performing Ideology: Rethinking Weimar Political Justice (page 171)
    • The performativity of justice and German legal culture (page 173)
    • 'Better propaganda of the deed than the offence itself': political trials in the public sphere (page 180)
    • Political trials and the aestheticization of politics (page 194)
    • Conclusion (page 211)
  • Conclusion (page 214)
    • 'Losing with a splash' (page 215)
    • The end of the story: party lawyers after 1933 (page 220)
    • Weimar as a stick to beat Bonn: a plea to retire some historiographical clichés (page 224)
    • Party lawyers on the Sonderweg? (page 227)
    • Orestes vs. the Furies or how to perform judicial legitimacy (page 229)
  • Appendix A: Party Allegience of 36 Prominent Political Lawyers in the Weimar Republic (page 232)
  • Appendix B: Occupation of 100 Lay Magistrates in Political Trials (page 233)
  • Appendix C: The Hierarchy of the German Court System (page 235)
  • Bibliography (page 237)
  • Index (page 249)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JMH 87.1 (Mar. 2015): 229-231 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/680129
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Published: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780199609048 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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