Jurists Uprooted
Subtitle: German-speaking Emigre Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain
Contributors: Jack Beatson (Editor); Reinhard Zimmermann (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 24, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 866
ISBN-13: 9780199270583
First sentence: On 30 January 1933, Paul von Beneckendorff und Hindenburg, the hero of the battle of Tannenberg, since 1925 Stare President, a man in his 86th year, still much revered but increasingly isolated and ill-advised, appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of the German Reich.