Introduction [excerpt] In the course of this paper, I will attempt to examine a number of key questions relating to the overall subjects of German law and legal system as it stood on the eve of Hitler's accession to the Chancellorship, the Nazi view of law that accompanied Hitler into office, the clash of these two partially opposing forces that commenced literally the day after Hitler took office, and moral responsibility for the human and material destruction authored by Germany during the Hitler era. These...

Abstract Biographies of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt note that by the time FDR took office in 1932, the Roosevelt marriage was more of a political partnership than an intimate personal relationship. They married for love in 1905 and had six children but, as a keenly intelligent woman, Eleanor Roosevelt struggled against the confines of her role as a society matron. In addition, her mother-in-law was a forceful and influential presence in her son's life and FDR proved unwilling to support his...