The article describes the fiction of law in the Third Reich using the example of a certain trial in Dresden. The case was brought against the activists of the Polish underground movement called Kuyavian Literary-Political Association/Kuyavian Social-Literary Association. This organization was one of the first underground and pro-independence organizations in Poland at the time of the Hitlerite occupation; its reach encompassed Eastern Kuyavian region and the city of Wloclawek. It was a civil organization which did not have a military character. It had been active until the beginning of 1941 when the arrests happened. About 140 people were incarcerated; the scope of the arrests was widening as long as the Nazi investigation continued. The trial of organization’s members, which took place in Dresden in October of 1942, did not at all resemble a process of seeking justice. The proceedings were in clear violation of the rule of law. The arrests warrants were issued against arrestees after they had been locked up for almost a year in camps or prisons. Such procedure obviously infringed upon the fundamental legal principle of lex retro non agit. The conspirators’ activity was categorized as a state treason in the light of criminal law for Poles and Jews. The sentences delivered against organization’s members were extremely severe. The court ordered either the capital punishment (by guillotine) or imprisonment for a period of over 10 years. Prosecutors and judges simply became servile executors of recommendations issued by the totalitarian state of Adolf Hitler.
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The article presents the evolution of philosophical anthropology – a new philosophical discipline which originated in Germany in the interwar period. After taking over the power by Hitler, some of the anthropologists were forced to emigrate, while the rest of them stayed in the country and began collaborating with the new government. Erich Rothacker and Arnold Gehlen are the examples of various ways of involvement in Nazi politics. Both thinkers not only occupied high positions at the universities and in national organizations but also promoted the ideology in their texts.
The essay looks at how the historiography of some of our former 'Western colleagues' dealt with the questions of the Holocaust in the framework of the several sub-contexts of the Second World War, such as the settlement policy of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe, the process of implementing orders on the level of higher and lower military commanders and its influence on the implementation of the 'final solution' or the influence of economic and ideological factors on the 'final solution'. The article describes various currents and trends in the historiography of the holocaust with the aim of pointing to perspectives and levels not considered by Slovak historiography up to now.
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