The fragility of law
Subtitle: constitutional patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945
By: David Fraser.
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780231700740
Subjects: Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belgium; Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The taxonomies of an anti-Jewish legal order; title: The secretaries-general : passive collaboration, Belgian law and the Jews, 1940-45; title: The fragility of law: anti-Jewish decrees and Belgian legal elites; title: Aryanization, legalized theft and Belgian law; title: Belgian municipalities and the introduction of anti-Jewish decrees; title: Brussels : passive collaboration and the Jews of the capital; title: Communicating, informing, and deciding : the city of Brussels and passive collaboration 1941-44; title: Liôge and its Jews: Hebrew and Polish stores, June 1940; title: Hirsch & co : a case study of Aryanization in Belgium; title: Belgian lawyers, Belgian judges, Jewish cases; title: Constitutional patriotism and the fragility of law.