Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47

by Carl Schmitt

Book Overview

When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach "automatic arrest." Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945-6 and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and "possible defendant." A formal charge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509511644
• ISBN13: 9781509511648
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"