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Justiz und NS-Verbrechen

The site presents a systematic overview of the cases heard and sentences passed for Nazi Crimes both in East and West Germany. The content is taken from the printed series “Justiz und NS Verbrechen: Sammlung Deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen” which began publication in 1945 and is still ongoing. The trials featured are the National Socialist homicidal trials. It is currently possible to browse using different entry points eg. defendants, victims or category of crime.

Bundesverfassungsgericht

Official website of the German Constitutional Court. Includes press releases, profiles of judges and background information on the organisation and functions of the Court. Judgments and press releases are provided (in German) back to 1998. Links are provided to other constitutional bodies in Germany and to constitutional courts in other countries. German and English versions of the site are available.

World Law: Germany

Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering Germany. Includes links to websites relating to: Courts, Education, Government, Legislation and Parliament. Additional subject areas include: Intellectual Property, Privacy, Taxation Revenue and Customs. A collection of stored searches will automatically search for materials relating to Germany on all of the WorldLII catalog or databases. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

Nuremberg Trials Project

The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project will make available digital images or full-text versions of documents relating to the trials of German Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The project will take place over the next 10 years. Currently the website has trial documents from the Medical Case (Case 1 of the NMT trials) and includes transcripts of court proceedings, analytical data and a search engine for documents currently available on the site.

German Law Journal

This online journal contains full-text articles in English covering legal developments in German and European jurisprudence. It is edited by Dr. Russell A. Miller, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law, and Peer Zumbansen, who holds the Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Comparative Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada. Issues of the journal are available back to October 2000 and are searchable as well as browseable.

Bundesarbeitsgericht

Website for the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Federal Labour Court), the highest federal court in Germany for cases concerning all aspects of employment law. The site is made freely available on the internet and includes background information on the history, organisation and structure of the court, together with details of the appointment of judges, lay members and research associates.

Tax Links

A privately maintained non commercial site established in July 2001 by Stefan Gross, a German tax specialist. The site provides guided links to a wide range of tax related sites, arranged under headings covering news, e-billing, international tax, practice tools for practitioners and legislation. The emphasis is on tax and taxation matters in Germany. Tax Links is a freely accessible service but some listed sources may be restricted. The site can be viewed in German only.

Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM)

This is the website of Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM), a Berlin-based research centre focusing on refugee movements. Founded in 1994, FFM researches the situation of refugees and migrants in various Central and Eastern European countries. Main research areas are refugee interests and rights, German legislation with respect to refugees and migrants, the trans-national nature of refugees' and migrants' own organisations amongst others.

Court of Restitution Appeals reports

This site provides access to full text law reports of the United States Court of Restitution Appeals, digitised and made freely available online by Harvard Law School Library. During World War Two the Nazis compelled many victims in occupied countries to sell properties and businesses. After the war the Western Allies agreed to restitute property taken and the United States, France and Britain each passed different legislation governing the restitution of property taken by Nazis.

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