Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank
Published on 15. March 2018
200 pages
978-80-246-3731-0 (ISBN)
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In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drápal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Hermann Frank, who would go on to be executed for his role in organizing the massacres of the Czech villages Lidice and Lezáky in 1942. Celebrating Resler's lifelong commitment to justice-to honoring even the most nefarious criminals' right to a defense-Drápal highlights events that influenced Resler's outlook and legal career, important cases that preceded Frank's trial, Resler's subsequent defenses of other Nazi criminals, and the final years of Resler's life under the communist regime.
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Jakub Drapal
Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank
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07/2018
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction: The final hours before the execution
- Photographs of Frank's family
- 1. The First Republic
- Defence of Antonín Kiesewetter in a treason case
- Childhood and education
- As a soldier
- JUDr. Kamill Resler's legal practice
- The Sokol's reaction to Resler's defence of Kiesewetter
- In the Sokol
- Codex mejdanensis
- Clubs and associations
- Legal practice during the First Republic (1918-1938)
- Resler's other clients
- Defence of doctor Arnost Dvorák
- Defence of Bedrich Kalda vs. the Czechoslovak state
- The case of the Mánes artistic association
- 2. After Munich
- Salute the Flag! and other wartime books
- In politics
- Resler's family
- Role in the Bar Association
- Protection of Jews during the war
- 3. During the War: 1939-1945
- Resler's "protectorate fun"
- Wartime conditions and the resistance
- Frantisek Bidlo and his Zderaz sketches
- Court cases and disputes during the war
- Defence of those on death row
- Frantisek Beran
- Irena Bernásková
- Anna Dousová
- Gisela Goldschraisátová
- Josef Hojný
- Frantisek Korda
- Adolf Plachý
- Ladislav Rasín
- Jana Tuhá
- Resler's stories of a colleague in Berlin
- Ordinary disputes
- After the war
- The attempt to convict traitors
- 4. The Karl Hermann Frank case
- The ex officio appointment
- Representation before the special courts
- The events of the trial
- The defence and the court proceedings
- The closing defence speech
- Reasons for conviction and acquittal
- The plea for mercy
- Financial and emotional consequences of the defence
- Frank's opinion of his defence
- The significance of Resler's defence and reactions to it
- The media's attitude to the trial, and Resler's later talks on the trial
- Visiting President Benes
- Resler's intention to publish a book
- 5. 1946-1948: Entering the twilight
- Defence of Richard Bienert
- The National Court
- Defence of Jirí Stríbrný
- Cases before and after the renewal of the Extraordinary People's Courts
- Kelemen Alexander
- Prof. Miloslav Hýsek
- Zlatko Bilian
- Hugo Sonnenschein-Sonka
- Marta Bidlová
- Karel Královec
- Frantisek Valach
- Key events of 1946 and 1947 and Resler's everyday work
- Zikmund Stein
- One insignificant case
- The end of Resler's career as a barrister
- 6. Artist and atists' lawyer to the end
- Work for the Neumann family
- Copyright disputes
- Stanislav Kostka Neumann
- Franz Kafka
- Resler's literary activity
- Articles
- Biographies
- As a translator and publisher
- New Year cards
- His own library
- Karel Dyrynk's magical experience in Kamill Resler's library
- Encounters with the regime
- Employment and Resler's financial situation
- Kamill Resler's death and will
- Afterword
- References
- Index of names
