Legal Practice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. A Micro-History of the District Court in Brno in 1942 Cover Image
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Rechtspraxis im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Eine Mikrogeschichte des Amtsgerichts in Brünn im Jahre 1942
Legal Practice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. A Micro-History of the District Court in Brno in 1942

Author(s): Felix Wnuck
Subject(s): History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Local History / Microhistory, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Antisemitism
Published by: STS Science Centre Ltd
Keywords: Brno; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; NS-Justice; county court; National Socialism; fascism; Czech History; legal practice; Second World War; antisemitism; racism;

Summary/Abstract: This text deals with the legal practice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. How the judges dispensed justice against several ethnical groups? Therefore case files from the „Amtsgericht Brünn“ will be analysed. In the end you could see an of course nationalistsocialist court, but not a highly political and not always unfair one. The „Amtsgericht Brünn“ was a more or less unimportant court and because of that, they acted in a more or less lawful way – from todays view.

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 50-58
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: German