The Nazi Rise to Power and the Weimar Constitution
January 28, 2021
10am-11:30am EST | 4pm-5:30pm CET | 5pm-6:30pm IL

An online event in partnership between The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, and the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations.  

Opening Remarks

Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary General for Global Communications

Meir Linzen, President, The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists

Key Statements

Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, Ambassador Christoph Heusgen

Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Ambassador Gilad Erdan

Discussion

Professor Sheri Berman, Barnard College: “Extremism is a Symptom of Democratic Failure Rather than a Cause: Understanding How Democratic Actors and Institutions Paved the Way for the Nazi Rise to Power”

Professor Benjamin Hett, Hunter College: “’Thou Shalt Not Wrest Judgment’: Legal Irrationality, Political Legitimacy, and the Rise of the Nazis”

Dr. Douglas G. Morris, Attorney and Legal Historian: “The Origins of the Nazi Dual State of Arbitrary Power and Nazified Law”

Professor Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna: “A Tale of Distorted Legality and of Illegitimacy: The Transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich”

Questions and Answers