``Non-Germans`` under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvölkische (literally, “foreign people”) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to extraordinary legal sanctions and brutal, extralegal police actions. These special laws, one of the central constitutional principles of the Third Reich, applied to anyone perceived as different or racially inferior, whether German citizens or not. “Non-Germans” under the Third Reich traces the establishment and evolution of these laws from the beginnings of the Third Reich through the administration of annexed and occupied eastern territories during the war. Drawing extensively on German archival sources as well as on previously unexplored material from Poland and elsewhere in eastern Europe, the book shows with chilling detail how the National Socialist government maintained a superficial legal continuity with the Weimar Republic while expanding the legal definition of Fremdvölkische, to untimately give itself legal sanction for the actions undertaken in the Holocaust. Replete with revealing quotations from secret decrees, instructions, orders, and reports, this major work of scholarship offers a sobering assessment of the theory and practice of law in Nazi Germany. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvölkische (literally, "foreign people") were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to extraordinary legal sanctions and brutal, extralegal police actions. These special laws, one of the central constitutional principles of the Third Reich, applied to anyone perceived as different or racially inferior, whether German citizens or not."Non-Germans" under the Third Reich traces the establishment and evolution of these laws from the beginnings of the Third Reich through the administration of annexed and occupied eastern territories during the war. Drawing extensively on German archival sources as well as on previously unexplored material from Poland and elsewhere in eastern Europe, the book shows with chilling detail how the National Socialist government maintained a superficial legal continuity with the Weimar Republic while expanding the legal definition of Fremdvölkische, to untimately give itself legal sanction for the actions undertaken in the Holocaust. Replete with revealing quotations from secret decrees, instructions, orders, and reports, this major work of scholarship offers a sobering assessment of the theory and practice of law in Nazi Germany.Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Title Page, Copyright Contents Preface to the English-Language Edition Foreword to the Second German Edition (1993) Preface to the Second German Edition (1993) Foreword to the First German Edition (1981) Preface to the First German Edition (1981) Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Section One. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the Altreich Section Two. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the Annexed Eastern Territories Section Three. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the General Government Section One. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the Altreich Section Two. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the Annexed Eastern Territories Section Three. The Implementation of Vᅢᄊlkisch Inequality in the General Government Conclusion Appendixes Notes Glossary of Traditional German Legal Terms andNational Socialist Legal Terminology Bibliography Index About the Author Image Plates Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdlkische (‘foreign people’) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights. This book traces the evolution of these laws from the beginnings of the Third Reich through the administration of annexed and occupied eastern territories during the war. Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as "Fremdvolkische" (literally "strange folk") were subject to special laws that restricted their rights and limited their protection under the law. This volume traces the development of this legal framework.