- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Foreword
- Translators’ Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Stunned by the Seizure of Power -
2 The Satirist’s Dilemma -
3 And what about Culture? -
4 Goebbels, Manipulative Modernism, and Bucolic Jew-Baiting -
5 Political Leadership and Artistic Transfiguration -
6 Heidegger and the Verbal Accomplices of Violence -
7 Gottfried Benn and the Sacrifice of Intellect -
8 Papen’s Two-Faced Politics and the Military Tradition -
9 National German Jews -
10 Turning Headlines into Lies -
11 Murder with Mendacity -
12 Purveyors of Culture and the Pen Congress -
13 Verbal Imperialism: “Germany, Awaken! …” -
14 Self-Refuting Rhetoric and the Price of Butter -
15 Rubbing Salt in the Wound -
16 Poets and Barbarians -
17 Translations from the Hebrew? -
18 Soundbite-Hooks and Foreign Policy -
19 “When Jewish Blood …” -
20 Austrian Independence and the Innocent Aggressor -
21 Protective Custody -
22 Sexual Hatred, “Unforced” Conversation, and an act of Defiance -
23 Dollfuss and the Social Democrats -
24 Casting out the Devil through Beelzebub -
25 Between Two Fascisms: Language Brings Everything to Light -
26 Headlong into Servitude: When Madmen Lead the Blind -
27 Out of the Abyss: Prussian Eagles and Parched Tongues -
28 Where Lawlessness Makes Law Its Instrument -
29 Prophets of Doom and the Triumph of Aryan Teutonism - Notes
- Glossary and Index
- About the Author
Where Lawlessness Makes Law Its Instrument
Where Lawlessness Makes Law Its Instrument
- Chapter:
- (p.213) 28 Where Lawlessness Makes Law Its Instrument
- Source:
- The Third Walpurgis Night
- Author(s):
Karl Kraus
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter talks about how certain irregularities appear in a different light the moment they are weighed against the administration of justice. According to guidelines established by the chief judge of a regional court and published in the Deutsche Juristenzeitung, a series of actions such as bodily harm, wrongful detention, and manslaughter are to be “determined by the national interest.” Consequently, these are exempt a priori from presumption of culpability, whereas hitherto the criminal proceedings first had to be quashed. There will be no repetition of the devious stratagem applied in the case of the Potempa murderers, whose lives hung by a thread while their official careers were set back by several months. What is required of judges is a certain independence when interpreting the law, to prevent them from going astray on such an important matter.
Keywords: lawlessness, law, justice, national interest, culpability, criminal proceedings, judges
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Foreword
- Translators’ Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Stunned by the Seizure of Power -
2 The Satirist’s Dilemma -
3 And what about Culture? -
4 Goebbels, Manipulative Modernism, and Bucolic Jew-Baiting -
5 Political Leadership and Artistic Transfiguration -
6 Heidegger and the Verbal Accomplices of Violence -
7 Gottfried Benn and the Sacrifice of Intellect -
8 Papen’s Two-Faced Politics and the Military Tradition -
9 National German Jews -
10 Turning Headlines into Lies -
11 Murder with Mendacity -
12 Purveyors of Culture and the Pen Congress -
13 Verbal Imperialism: “Germany, Awaken! …” -
14 Self-Refuting Rhetoric and the Price of Butter -
15 Rubbing Salt in the Wound -
16 Poets and Barbarians -
17 Translations from the Hebrew? -
18 Soundbite-Hooks and Foreign Policy -
19 “When Jewish Blood …” -
20 Austrian Independence and the Innocent Aggressor -
21 Protective Custody -
22 Sexual Hatred, “Unforced” Conversation, and an act of Defiance -
23 Dollfuss and the Social Democrats -
24 Casting out the Devil through Beelzebub -
25 Between Two Fascisms: Language Brings Everything to Light -
26 Headlong into Servitude: When Madmen Lead the Blind -
27 Out of the Abyss: Prussian Eagles and Parched Tongues -
28 Where Lawlessness Makes Law Its Instrument -
29 Prophets of Doom and the Triumph of Aryan Teutonism - Notes
- Glossary and Index
- About the Author
