Table of Contents

The background; a political judiciary; the NSDAP and the law; the National Socialist state and the law; the National Socialist people's court 1934-1939; Roland Freisler as publicist; judiciary in crisis 1939-1942; Freisler as VGH president 1942-1944; conspiracies against Hitler; the trial of the conspirators; the final days of the VGH. Appendix: the structure of the German judiciary.