National Socialist family law : the influence of National Socialism on marriage and divorce law in Germany and the Netherlands / by Mariken Lenaerts.
2015
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Author
Title
National Socialist family law : the influence of National Socialism on marriage and divorce law in Germany and the Netherlands / by Mariken Lenaerts.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
KJC1105 .L46 2015
ISBN
9789004279308 (hbk. : alk. paper)
900427930X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004279315 (e-book)
900427930X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004279315 (e-book)
Description
xii, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)890912701
Note
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Maastricht University), 2012--Page [xi].
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335).
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Table of Contents
Preface
xi
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Family Law during the Nazi Era
2
1.2.
Research Questions and Scope of this Research
2
1.3.
Sources
4
1.4.
Structure of the Research
5
1.5.
Translation of Terminology
6
2.
Family Policy According to National Socialism
7
2.1.
Introduction
7
2.2.
The Origins of National Socialism
8
2.2.1.
A Volk Rooted in Nature
8
2.2.2.
The Concept of 'Racism' in Völkish Thought
10
2.2.3.
Social Darwinism and Racial Hygiene
12
2.2.4.
From Racial Hygiene to Anti-Semitism
14
2.3.
The Position of Jews in Germany
16
2.4.
The Development of Family Policy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
20
2.4.1.
Germany during the Interbellum [—] the Weimar Republic
20
2.4.2.
Population Policy before the Weimar Republic
23
2.4.3.
Population and Family Policy during the Weimar Republic
26
2.4.4.
Social Hygiene and Eugenics in the Weimar Years
32
2.5.
The Nazi Era
35
2.5.1.
Volksgemeinschaft [—] the Strength of a Nation
35
2.5.2.
From Social Hygiene to Racial Hygiene
37
2.5.2.1.
Compulsory Sterilisation
37
2.5.2.2.
Abortion
40
2.5.2.3.
Euthanasia
42
2.5.3.
National Socialist Family Policy
43
2.5.3.1.
Family and Marriage as Venn Cell of the Nation
43
2.5.3.2.
The Role of Women
45
2.5.3.3.
Kinderreich versus Großfamilien
48
2.5.3.4.
'Married Without Children'
49
2.6.
Conclusion
50
2.6.1.
Pro-natalism versus Selection
50
2.6.2.
Anti-Semitism
51
2.6.3.
National Socialist Pro-natalism
51
2.6.4.
The Results
52
3.
National Socialist Racial and Family Law in Germany
54
3.1.
Introduction
54
3.2.
Family Law in the Weimar Republic
55
3.2.1.
Conclusion of Marriage
56
3.2.2.
Annulment of Marriage
58
3.2.3.
Dissolution of Marriage
60
3.3.
From Weimar to Third Reich
64
3.4.
March 1933[—]August 1935: Re-interpreting the Law
65
3.4.1.
Conclusion of Marriage
65
3.4.2.
Annulment of Marriage
68
3.5.
The Nuremberg Laws
72
3.5.1.
The Build-up to Amendments
72
3.5.2.
The Reich Citizenship Law
76
3.5.3.
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour
85
3.6.
Keeping the Aryan Race Healthy [—] the Marriage Health Law
95
3.7.
The New Matrimonial Law for the New Germany
106
3.7.1.
The Build-up to a New Marriage Law
106
3.7.2.
Marriage and Divorce Law in Austria and the Need to Adapt the Draft Revision
118
3.7.3.
The Marriage Law of 1938
123
3.7.3.1.
Conclusion of Marriage
124
3.7.3.2.
Annulment and Termination of Marriage
129
3.7.3.3.
Divorce
137
3.7.3.4.
Exceptional and Transitional Provisions for Austria
150
3.7.3.5.
Final Provisions
152
3.8.
Conclusion
152
3.8.1.
Germany
152
3.8.2.
Austria
153
3.8.3.
After the National Socialist Takeover
153
4.
Racial and Family Law in the Netherlands during the German Occupation
158
4.1.
Introduction
158
4.2.
Dutch Family Law before the German Occupation
159
4.2.1.
Conclusion of Marriage
161
4.2.2.
Annulment of Marriage
170
4.2.3.
Dissolution of Marriage
175
4.2.3.1.
Separation from Bed and Board
178
4.2.3.2.
Divorce
180
4.2.4.
Attempts to Revise Matrimonial Law
185
4.2.4.1.
The i886 Draft Revision of the Civil Code
186
4.2.4.2.
The Big Lie
190
4.2.4.3.
Discussion about the 'Free Marriage'
193
4.2.4.4.
Eugenics and Matrimonial Law
197
4.2.4.5.
Further Attempts at Amendments
200
4.2.5.
The Application of the Nuremberg Laws between 7935-7940
206
4.3.
Years of Occupation
214
4.3.1.
Administrative and Legislative Competences during Occupation
214
4.3.2.
Defining the Jewish Question' in the Netherlands
232
4.3.3.
Adoption of the Nuremberg Laws
240
4.3.4.
The Problem of Existing Mixed Marriages
258
4.3.4.1.
The Privileged Mixed Marriage
258
4.3.4.2.
Sterilisation of Mixed-Married Jews
262
4.3.4.3.
Divorce
266
4.3.5.
Attempts to Revise Dutch Divorce Law
269
4.3.5.1.
Schrieke's Draft of 7942
269
4.3.5.2.
Reactions to the First Draft
277
4.3.5.3.
Schrieke's Second Draft of 7944
284
4.3.5.4.
The Aftermath of Schrieke's Drafts
292
4.4.
Conclusion
294
4.4.1.
Dutch Marriage and Divorce Law before the German Occupation
294
4.4.2.
The Law of Occupation and the German Civil Administration in the Netherlands
295
4.4.3.
Marriage and Divorce Law and the Position of Jews in that Respect during the German Occupation
296
5.
Conclusion
300
5.1.
National Socialism [—] the Family as Germ Cell of the Nation
300
5.2.
National Socialism in Practice
301
5.3.
National Socialist Family Law?
305
Bibliography
309
Literature
309
Periodicals
321
Internet Sources
322
Archival Source List
322
Table of Legislation
323
Table of Cases
333