The Fragility of Law : Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940â"1945 - David Fraser

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The Fragility of Law

Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940â"1945

By: David Fraser

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Hardcover | 5 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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 persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of Belgian Jews was Belgian.

Based on extensive archival research in Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of international law found in the Hague Convention and those guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However, they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the country's Jewish population, the mythology of "passive collaboration" which has dominated Belgian historiography and accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically rethought.

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"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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Non-Fiction History General & World History Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Constitutional & Administrative Law Specific Events & Topics in History Geonocide & Ethnic Cleansing The Holocaust Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Military History

Second World War

The Taxonomies of an Anti-Jewish Legal Order
The Secretaries-General: Passive Collaboration, Belgian Law and the Jews, 1940-45
The Fragility of Law: Anti-Jewish Decrees and Belgian Legal Elites
Aryanization, Legalized Theft and Belgian Legality
Belgian Municipalities and the Introduction of Anti-Jewish Decrees
Brussels: Passive Collaboration and the Jews of the Capital
Communicating, Informing, and Deciding: The City of Brussels and Passive Collaboration 1941-44
Li+?ge and Its Jews: Hebrew and Polish Stores, June 1940
Hirsch & Co: A Case Study of Aryanization in Belgium
Belgian Lawyers, Belgian Judges, Jewish Cases
Constitutional Patriotism and the Fragility of Law
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The Fragility of Law

Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940â"1945

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