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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14634-1 - The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 Alex J. Kay Index More information Index Alemannia (student fraternity) 15 Bradfisch, Otto 41, 51, 71, 100, 107, 163, Allied High Commission 90 191, 202 Alshibaya, Misha 90 Brancovskaya, Fania 5 Alzey 22 Braunschweig-Hannoversche Amburger, Andreas von 58 Hypothekenbank 91–92 Ashmyany 55 Bremen 11 Auschwitz See concentration camps; Bremen (ship) 11 extermination camps Brest 159 Austria 15, 26–27, 99 British Military Mission in Denmark 88 Brotbrück (major) 62 Baader, Andreas 111–112, 114 Buchenwald See concentration camps Baatz, Bernhard 193 Budapest 27 Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem 69, 85 Budianka 66 Bad Gandersheim 88–92, 97, 191, See also Hilprechtshausen manor Cahn, Eva 80 Bad Schmiedeberg 41, 154 Cahn, Paul 80 Baden-Württemberg 90, 96, 109, 121, 206 Calley, William Laws 206 Baltic 43, See also Estonia; Lithuania Caucasus 43, 89 Barbie, Klaus 94 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Bartsch, Heinz 99 94–95, 115 Bel Milloud, Aziz 118 Central Office for Jewish Emigration Belarus 3, 40, 43, 60, 85, 118–119 28, 129 Bente, Henry 11 Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of Berchtesgaden 87 the Federal States for the Berlin 2, 22–23, 25, 27, 31, 38, 41, 45, 48, Investigation of National Socialist 58–59, 62, 65, 70, 75–76, 78, 80, 82, Crimes 96, 111 100, 105, 120, 151, 192, Charenton 113 See also East Berlin; West Berlin Cherbourg 11 Berlin International Film Festival 116, CIA See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 120 CIC See Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Bernicke, Käthe Ilse Frieda See Filbert, Columbus (ship) 11 Käthe Commerz- und Privatbank 8 Best, Werner 1, 23–24, 38, 81, 105 Communist Party of Germany 85–86, 99 Bikovtshina 66 Communist Party of the Soviet Union 42, Bley, Erich 23 63, 66, See also Komsomol Blobel, Paul 123, 163 concentration camps 83, 85–86, See also Blume, Walter 41, 76, 100, 148, 160 extermination camps BND 94–95, 114–115 Auschwitz 86 Bolivia 94, 114 Buchenwald 3, 5, 79, 83, 85–87, 91, 118 Border Police Academy 41, 69 Dachau 129 Borovlyany 67 Flossenbürg 86 Bottrop 11, 87, 91, 120 Groß-Rosen 86 235 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14634-1 - The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 Alex J. Kay Index More information 236 Index concentration camps (cont.) Sonderkommando 7a 41, 43, 49, 59, Mauthausen 99 76, 100, 148, 160 Neuengamme 86 Sonderkommando 7b 43 Ravensbrück 86 Einsatzgruppe C 153 Sachsenhausen 82–83, 99 Einsatzkommando 5 100, 148 Theresienstadt 80, 129 Sonderkommando 4a 163 Confederation of German Employers’ Einsatzgruppe D 39, 43, 149 Associations 14 Sonderkommando 11b 164 Corps Hassia-Gießen (student frater- Einsatzgruppe I (Polish campaign) 41 nity) 15 Einsatzkommando Tilsit 96 Corps Suevia (student fraternity) 138 Elser, Georg 37 Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) 94–95 Enabling Act 21 Crimea 43 England 115 Criminal Police See Reich Criminal Police; Ensslin, Gudrun 114 West German Federal Criminal Estonia 193, See also Baltic Police extermination camps See also concentration Czechoslovakia 26–27, See also Protectorate camps of Bohemia and Moravia; Auschwitz 80, 118, 120 Sudetenland Treblinka 78 Dachau See concentration camps Faller, Bernd 69–70 Dannecker, Theodor 1, 135 Federation of German Industries 14 Darmstadt 8, 13, 25, 41, 102, 115 Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo 114 Dessau 37, 83 Fiebig, Konrad 94, 100, 103 Dicks, Henry V. 5, 19, 80, 82, 106, 119, Filbert, Christiane 8–9, 35, 90, 115 122, 125 Filbert, Dieter 5, 31, 88, 92, 120–121, 202 Dirlewanger, Oscar 83, 85 Filbert, Erika 5 Dirlewanger Brigade See Waffen SS Filbert, Günter 31, 88, 120 Ditfurth, Wolfgang von 69, 75 Filbert, Käthe 31, 88–92, 106, 120, 191 Düben 41, 154 Filbert, Kurt 87, 125 Dvoritsha 66 Filbert, Lina 8, 87, 90–91, 106 Filbert, Otto 3, 5, 8, 10–12, 36–38, 75, 81, East Berlin 102, 110–111, See also Berlin; 83, 85–87, 90–91, 94, 104, 118–121, West Berlin 124, 127 Ehlers, Ernst 41 Filbert, Peter (father) 6, 8–9, 35, 37, 83, 90, Ehrlinger, Erich 202 92, 94 Eichmann, Adolf 3, 28, 39, 94, 102, 123, Filbert, Peter (nephew) 5, 37, 87, 90, 129, 135, 138 121, 125 Einsatzgruppen 2, 27, 40–44, 48, 51, Filbert, Ralph 5, 37, 121, 125 57–58, 60, 65, 68, 71, 75–76, 80, 96, Filbert, Wilhelmina 11, 37, 86–87, 91, 99, 100–101, 103, 105, 122–124, 120, 125 146, 150, 151, 154, 159, 165 Finke, August 28 Einsatzgruppe A 45, 63 First Grand Ducal Hessian Lifeguards Einsatzkommando 3 2, 163 Infantry Regiment No. 115 8 Einsatzgruppe B 2–3, 7, 40–41, 43, First World War 9, 17–19, 106 45–46, 55, 58–60, 62–63, 65, 67, Fleischmann, Georg 102 70–71, 76, 81, 102, 107, 148, 153 Flensburg 87–88 Advance Commando Moscow 2, Flossenbürg See concentration camps 43, 76 Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP 89 Einsatzkommando 8 41, 43, 71, 100, France 116 107, 153, 163, 191, 202 Freikorps 19 Einsatzkommando 9 3, 5, 6, 29, 41, Fritz Sauckel Works 83 43–55, 57–78, 92, 94, 96–97, Fumy, Rudolf 30 99–106, 122, 143, 153, 154, 173 Fürth 22 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14634-1 - The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 Alex J. Kay Index More information Index 237 Gehlen Organisation 94, 115 Heuser, Georg 163 German Army See High Command of the Heydrich, Reinhard 1, 14, 24, 27–28, 30, Army (OKH); Wehrmacht 38–42, 48, 57–59, 65, 69–70, 78–82, German Communist Party See Communist 100, 105, 118, 143, 150, 151, 159, Party of Germany 160, 165 German Red Cross 31, 33 High Command of the Army (OKH) 43 German Student Body (DSt) 15–16 Higher SS and Police Leaders 2, 42, 65, German Student Committee (AStA) 14 80, 87 German University Circle (DHR) 15 Hille, Adolf 90 Geschonneck, Erwin 111, 116 Hilprechtshausen manor 88–90, See also Geschonneck, Heike 111, 113–114 Bad Gandersheim Gestapo 25, 28, 38, 43–45, 49, 61, 79, 82, Himmler, Heinrich 1–2, 28, 37–39, 41–42, 102, 107, 143, 154, 163 48, 58, 79, 82–83, 85, 87, 100, Gestapo Central Office 24–26, 28 151, 159 Office I 23 Hitler, Adolf 3, 21, 37–38, 42, 69, 82, Magdeburg Gestapo 37, 83 86–88, 100, 102, 105, 119 ghetto, Jewish 63, 67 Holste, Eduard 71 in Łódź 92 Holzhausen 14 in Nevel 64–65 Höttl, Wilhelm 29 in Polatsk 63 Hungary 86, 111, 113 in Vitebsk 60, 65, 67–71, 115 in Yanavichy 65, 100, 105 Immensee (film) 205 Giessen 13, 14, 21–22, 88 Institute of Contemporary History 99 Globocnik, Odilo 1 International Military Tribunal 91, 101 Göring, Hermann 39–40 Italy 110 GPU 39, 125 Ivniki 66–67 Gramki 61 Grawitz, Ernst-Robert 33 Jäger, Karl 2, 123, 163 Greiffenberger, Wilhelm 45–46, 55, 57–59, Jeckeln, Friedrich 164 62, 65, 68–71, 76–77, 94, 100–103, Jerusalem 102, 123, 138 106, 115, 122 Jewish Council Grodno 46–48, 100, 159 in Nevel 64 Groß Rhüden 31 in Vilnius 52 Groß-Rosen See concentration camps Jewish ghetto See ghetto, Jewish Gründel, E. Günther 3, 17–19 Joffroy, Pierre 113, 118 Jost, Heinz 14–15, 22, 24, 27–29, 37, 39–40, Haffner, Sebastian 19 76, 78, 81, 141, 144, 146, 185 Hamburg 37, 120 Jud Süß (film) 110 Handelsinstitut Lust-Dickescheid 13 Jung, Philipp Wilhelm 23 Hanns Kerrl Communal Camp 25 Junkers Aircraft Factory 37 Hanover 91–92, 107 Justus Liebig University, Giessen 104–105 Haradok 61, 63, 66–67 Jüterbog 25 Haradok District 64 Harlan, Thomas 3, 94, 96, 108–120, 173 Kaunas 159 Harlan, Veit 3, 110–111, 118, 205 KGB 106 Haß, Karl 110 Kharkiv 68 Haupt, Richard 46, 48, 50 Klein, Friedrich 45, 57, 65 Hausner, Gideon 123 Koblenz 163 Hegewald 58 Koch, Karl Otto 79 Heidelberg 8, 13, 114–115 Kogon, Eugen 85 Hertfordshire 115 Komsomol 63, 66, See also Communist Hesse 14–15, 22, 24, 38, 81 Party of the Soviet Union Hesse, People’s State of 5, 12–13 Koskamp, Wilhelmina See Filbert, Hesse-Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of 12 Wilhelmina Hesse-Nassau 22 Kraków 85 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14634-1 - The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 Alex J. Kay Index More information 238 Index Kramer, Erika 5, 118 National Socialist Women’s League 35 Kramer, Robert 114, 116, 118–120, 173 Nazi Party (NSDAP) 14, 20–23, 31, 35, Kruk, Herman 52 79–80, 122 Kühner, Christiane See Filbert, Christiane Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg 22 Kulik, Grigory 64 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act 94 Nebe, Arthur 2, 40, 48, 53, 55, 60, La caduta degli dei (film) 110 62–63, 71, 75, 81–82, 148, La Paz 114 159, 206 Langmann, Ursula 5, 113, 118 Netherlands 104 Law on the Granting of Impunity from Neubert, Richard 46, 60, 102–103 Prosecution 90–91 Neuengamme See concentration camps Lehn, Paul 37, 76 Neumann, Erich 71 Leningrad 68, See also St Petersburg Nevel 64–65, 67, 100, See also ghetto, Lepel 62, 65, 67, 173 Jewish; Jewish Council Lida 46, 50, 100, 159 New Haven 11 Lithuania 2, 5, 38, 46, 99, 119, See also New York 11 Baltic Nietzsche, Friedrich 18 Lobbes, Hans 82 NKGB 65, 67 Łódź 107, See also ghetto, Jewish NKVD 49, 65–66, 159 Lower Saxony 88, 91–92 Nockemann, Hans 23, 143 Ludwigsburg 96, 111 Norway 58 L’viv 159 Notre Nazi (film) 3, 5, 116, 118–120, 125, 173 McCloy, John J.
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    Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review Volume 39 Number 1 Special Edition: The Nuremberg Laws Article 8 and the Nuremberg Trials Winter 2017 (De)Constructing the Nazi State: Criminal Organizations and the Constitutional Theory of the International Military Tribunal David Fraser University of Nottingham, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr Recommended Citation David Fraser, (De)Constructing the Nazi State: Criminal Organizations and the Constitutional Theory of the International Military Tribunal, 39 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 117 (2017). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr/vol39/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 08 FRASER .DOCX (DO NOT DELETE) 1/24/17 7:14 PM (De)Constructing the Nazi State: Criminal Organizations and the Constitutional Theory of the International Military Tribunal DAVID FRASER* I. INTRODUCTION The place of the International Military Tribunal (“IMT”) at Nu- remberg for both historical and legal scholarship is not yet beyond doubt as we approach the seventieth anniversary of the proceedings.1 Some claim that, despite its many acknowledged