![]() ![]() Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd New edition edition (27 Mar. A far more central issue here than in most states, it examines the development of capital punishment in Germany from early modern times to the Third Reich and its two successor states. ![]() A history of capital punishment in Germany since the 17th century, this text is an exploration of German society as shown in attitudes to and use of the death penalty. It was not until 1949 that executions were outlawed in West Germany in the Communist East they continued into the 1980s. The Weimar Republic virtually abolished capital punishment – and then gave way to the Nazi bloodbath. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the seventeenth century to the present.Richard Evans analyses the system of traditional. Yet moves towards the complete abolition of the death penalty ground to a halt in 1870, with the creation of Bismarck’s Empire. Yet moves towards the complete abolition of the death penalty ground to a halt in 1870, with the creation of Bismarck’s Empire. The ideals of the Enlightenment transformed execution from a barbarous public spectacle into a far more impersonal, civilized process. ![]() The ideals of the Enlightenment transformed execution from a “barbarous” public spectacle into a far more impersonal, “civilized” process. ![]()
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