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The Fragility of Law: Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945 book cover

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The Fragility of Law Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

By David Fraser Copyright 2009
304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish
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The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic... Read more

1. The Taxonomies of an Anti-Jewish Legal Order  2. The Secretaries-General: Passive Collaboration, Belgian Law and the Jews, 1940–45  3. The Fragility of Law: Anti-Jewish Decrees and Belgian Legal Elites  4. Aryanization, Legalized Theft and Belgian Legality  5. Belgian Municipalities and the Introduction of Anti-Jewish Decrees  6. Brussels: Passive Collaboration and the Jews of the Capital  7. Communicating, Informing, and Deciding: The City of Brussels and Passive Collaboration 1941–44  8. Liège and Its Jews: "Hebrew and Polish Stores," June 1940  9. Hirsch & Co: A Case Study of Aryanization in Belgium  10. Belgian Lawyers, Belgian Judges, Jewish Cases  11. Constitutional Patriotism and the Fragility of Law

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David Fraser

"Based on extensive archival research, the book offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history." Socio-Legal Newsletter, Summer 2012
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