Publication details
Sexuální trestné činy ve Třetí říši
| Title in English | Sexual crime in the Third Reich |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The purpose of this chapter is to give a basic overview of regulation of sexual crime and its prosecution in Nazi Germany in the years 1933-1945. Nazis in this area have made some significant changes and sharpen the repression of crimes of a sexual nature and have even introduced some new facts. This chapter first discusses the basic characteristics of a Nazi criminal law so that the reader would understand the principles of its basis. Then, attention is paid to the individual facts of sex crime embeded in the German Criminal Code of 1871. The chapter discusses in detail the newly introduced crime offense "defiling race", which was prosecuted under the Act on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor from 1935. As the leading Nazis did not feel the criminal law "hard" enough and effective in the fight against crime, in the 30’s of the last century a preparation of large crime law reform started. It should be considerably more strict prosecution of sexual offenses, which didn’t come into action due to other events and development. |