The Major Laws and Decrees of the Third Reich

The Major Laws and Decrees of the Third Reich is a collection of all the principal laws and decrees brought in over the period of Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The book contains not only the full text in translation of the major legislation of the period, but also many of the much-neglected supplementary laws and decrees which often impacted on the laws themselves and which contextualise them and help us make sense of them today.





In addition to the full text of the laws, an introduction will deal with issues such as the role of law and the judiciary, how laws and decrees were formulated, mechanisms of consent and subversion of the established law. Over three chronological sections, divided into thematic parts, J.A.S. Grenville and Jeremy Noakes include laws which covered all areas of government, the economy, race and ideological indoctrination. Each part and section will have a commentary discussing issues such as the relationship between party and state, the rise of the party and the SS, and the politicisation of the legal system during the war.





Many of the laws included in this volume have never been translated into English before, and so together with the unique commentary and the contextualisation of the laws, the book is an essential reference work for all students of Nazi Germany.