[IntLawProfessors] CITING HITLER?

[William Slomanson]

Thanks, Mary. Point well taken. It's so ironic that in some passages, Mein Kampf sounds like it was lifted from the French Revolution or US Const.---as opposed to the overall vitriolic msg of the book. The man sure changed his tune on those points, after he achieved power.

Regards,
Bill
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Bill,

I think I would prefer you did not use it in the textbook. I think I'd feel stuck with having to spend time on it that I really don't have in order to use it thoughtfully.  I have undergrads for just 14 weeks.  Trust me, with your book they get to these questions on their own by doing the work and seeing the discrepancies between legal rules, legal decisions, legal aspirations, and other forms of reality.

That said, I think it would work fine as a teaching strategy on the website you have for the professors.  Then you could have the quote, more context, and perhaps more on how to use it.

I just read a quite amazing book: Edmund De Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes.  Check out pp. 237-289 in the Vintage paperback. It offers quite a view of "legalistic" forms of injustice just before and certainly after the Austrian Anschluss.  I was, upon reading it, surprised at the sheer speed of what happened.

Mary

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