Karolinum Press, Charles University
Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank
9788024637303
9788024637310
9788024642307
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Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank
In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drápal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Hermann Frank, who would go on to be executed for his role in organizing the massacres of the Czech villages Lidice and Ležáky in 1942. Celebrating Resler’s lifelong commitment to justice—to honoring even the most nefarious criminals’ right to a defense—Drápal highlights events that influenced Resler’s outlook and legal career, important cases that preceded Frank’s trial, Resler’s subsequent defenses of other Nazi criminals, and the final years of Resler’s life under the communist regime.
200 pages | 30 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2018
History: General History
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies
