The modernization of West German police: between the Nazi past and Weimar tradition
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Coping with the Nazi past: West German debates on Nazism and generational conflict. 1955 - 1975.. ed. / Philipp Gassert. Vol. 2 Berghahn Books, 2006. p. 96-113 ( Studies in German history; Vol. 2).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The modernization of West German police
T2 - Conference
AU - Weinhauer, Klaus
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 108 - 112
PY - 2006/10/15
Y1 - 2006/10/15
N2 - In March 1964, a leading Hamburg police doctor summarized factors impeding a “mental renewal” of the police in West Germany. First, during the Third Reich the police saw itself “abused” and, following its traditional duty of obedience, embroiled in an innocent tragedy (even if the misdemeanors of some civil servants were undisputed). Among policemen it had been forgotten that the “moral balance sheet of the Bundeswehr, the judges, the educators, or the doctors is equally in deficit.” Second, police were “extremely sensitive to criticism. Not all police leaders understand that police affairs are not a preserve insulated from public scrutiny.”¹...
AB - In March 1964, a leading Hamburg police doctor summarized factors impeding a “mental renewal” of the police in West Germany. First, during the Third Reich the police saw itself “abused” and, following its traditional duty of obedience, embroiled in an innocent tragedy (even if the misdemeanors of some civil servants were undisputed). Among policemen it had been forgotten that the “moral balance sheet of the Bundeswehr, the judges, the educators, or the doctors is equally in deficit.” Second, police were “extremely sensitive to criticism. Not all police leaders understand that police affairs are not a preserve insulated from public scrutiny.”¹...
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84918859671&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Chapter
SN - 1-8454-5086-8
SN - 978-1-8454-5086-1
VL - 2
T3 - Studies in German history
SP - 96
EP - 113
BT - Coping with the Nazi past
A2 - Gassert, Philipp
PB - Berghahn Books
Y2 - 19 April 2001 through 21 April 2001
ER -