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In 1997, Peter Hayes was approached by the German chemical firm Degussa to research and write a detailed report about its activities in Nazi Germany. As the author of a well-received volume on the history of IG Farben in the Third Reich and a respected professor of German history and Holocaust studies at Northwestern University, Hayes was a logical and solid choice to undertake such a task. The judicious and careful volume under review is the final product of his effort.

This article explores the possibility that harm to the fabric of society provides the best justification for some statutes that prohibit otherwise harmless conduct. This article considers three illustrations: first, the incest statutes, which, even in progressive states like Alaska and New York, prohibit a wide array of basically harmless conduct; second, a Massachusetts statute regulating the use of human silhouettes in target practice; and finally, legislation that would prohibit the medical procedure known as "partial-birth abortion.'" After discussing these illustrations, there is a close analysis of the general argument for the preservation of moral reaction patterns. The ultimate validity of the laws in question, particularly the ban on partial-birth abortions, involves considerations well beyond the scope of this article.

Der Aufsatz berichtet von einer Auswertung von Akten der Gestapo und der Sondergerichte in Krefeld und Köln im Hinblick auf die unterschiedliche Behandlung von jüdischen und deutschen Frauen und Männern. Es zeigt sich, daß die - immer wieder heute behauptete Widerstandseinstellung vieler Deutscher - im Widerspruch zu den untersuchten Zahlen steht. Obwohl die jüdische Bevölkerung in den beiden untersuchten Städten nur zwischen eins und zwei v.H. der Gesamtbevölkerung betrug, wurden überdurchschnittlich viele Verfahren gegen diese Gruppe durchgeführt. Zudem wurden Deutsche meist lediglich von der Gestapo verwarnt oder der Staatsanwaltschaft übergeben, jüdische Verdächtige dagegen meist in Haft genommen. ; As part of an ongoing project on Nazi terror, this paper systematically examines the evidence contained in hundreds of Gestapo and Special Court case files in the Cities of Krefeld and Cologne and the results of a recent survey of elderly Cologne citizens pertaining to their experiences in Nazi Germany to compare the persecution of Jewish men and women with the persecution of non-Jewish men and women during the Third Reich. It argues that while most elderly Germans claim today that they had violated Nazi laws at one time or another (e.g. by listening to foreign radio broadcasts, telling anti-Nazi jokes, giving aid to Nazi victims, or spreading information about the Holocaust) very few of their illegal acts concerned the police and justice authorities greatly and very few either came to the attention of the Gestapo or where punished with severity when they did, except in cases involving Jewish men and Jewish women, who suffered ruthless punishment for even the most minor of infractions.