The Fragility of legislation examines the ways that, through the moment international warfare, the Belgian executive and judicial constitution grew to become implicated within the id, exclusion and killing of its Jewish citizens, and within the robbery - via Aryanization - of Jewish estate.

David Fraser demonstrates how a chain of political and criminal compromises intended that the infrastructure for antisemitic persecutions and finally the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Belgian Jews used to be Belgian.

Based on large archival examine in Belgium, France, the us and Israel, The Fragility of legislation deals the 1st designated exploration in English of this fascinating and nearly unexplored episode of Holocaust heritage. Belgian criminal officers didn't hesitate to invoke the provisions of overseas legislations present in the Hague conference and people promises of person freedom present in the nationwide structure to oppose the calls for of the German Occupying Authority. although, they remained mostly silent while anti-Jewish persecution used to be at stake. certainly, regardless of the 2007 reliable document of specialist historians on Belgian nation collaboration within the persecution of the country’s Jewish inhabitants, the mythology of "passive collaboration" which has ruled Belgian historiography and bills of the Holocaust in that nation, needs to be appreciably rethought.

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