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• DVD, NTSC.
• In German with English voiceover and narration.
• Documentary.
• Original German version includes color sections and runs 110 minutes.
• Editor, Evelyn Mundin music, Wolfgang de Gelmini narrator, David Thomas original text, Karl-Heinz Janszen.
• Originally released in 1979.
• The trial of the conspirators who tried to kill Hitler is shown through actual footage that provides details of the various attempts at assassination, from the bomb in Munich’s Bürgerbräukeller to Claus von Stauffenberg’s explosive attack on the Wolfsschanze. Features previously unseen film of the National Committee for a Free Germany, plus new information about members of the Kreisau Circle and the White Rose.
• Narrator, David Thomas.

Subjects:

• Trials (Attempted murder) — Germany.
• Attempted assassination — Germany.
• Bombings — Germany.
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 — Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 — Assassination attempts.
• Operation Valkyrie, 1944.
• Anti-Nazi movement — Germany.
• Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944.
• Wolfsschanze (Poland)
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Problem of indigenous claim making in colonial history / Saliha Belmessous — Possessing empire : Iberian claims and interpolity law / Lauren Benton — Law, land, and legal rhetoric in colonial New Spain : a look at the changing rhetoric of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century / R. Jovita Baber — Court and chronicle : a native Andean’s engagement with Spanish colonial law / Rolena Adorno — Powhatan legal claims / Andrew Fitzmaurice — Wabanaki versus French and English claims in northeastern North America, c. 1715 / Saliha Belmessous — Chief princes and owners of all : Native American appeals to the crown in the early-modern British Atlantic / Craig Yirush — Framing and reframing the Agōn : contesting narratives and counternarratives on Mãori property rights and political constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / Mark Hickford — Bring this paper to the good governor : aboriginal petitioning in Britain’s Australian colonies / Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell — Native land court : making property in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Christopher Hilliard — African and European initiatives in the transformation of land tenure in colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Kristin Mann — Afterword: Normative force of the past / Duncan Ivison.
• This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has been wrongly understood to be a relatively recent phenomenon. These essays demonstrate how indigenous peoples throughout the world opposed colonization not only with force, but also with ideas. They made claims to territory using legal arguments drawn from their own understanding of a law that applies between peoples–a kind of law of nations, comparable to that being developed by Europeans. The contributors to this volume argue that in the face of indigenous legal arguments, European justifications of colonization should be understood not as an original and originating legal discourse but, at least in part, as a form of counter-claim. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, including Rolena Adorno, Lauren Benton, Duncan Ivison, and Kristin Mann. Their combined expertise makes this volume uniquely expansive in its coverage of a crucial issue in global and colonial history. The various essays treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America (including the British colonies and French Canada), and nineteenth-century Australasia and Africa. There is no other book that examines the issue of European dispossession of native peoples in such a way –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Indigenous peoples — Legal status, laws, etc. — History.
• Indigenous peoples — Claims — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and indexes.
• Balancing public values — the big picture — European restrictionism and its variations — Holocaust denial and its extremes — American exceptionalism and its limits — Banning racist groups and parties — Punishing racial discrimination and hate crimes — How much freedom for racists?
• We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide-ranging book, Erik Bleich explores policies that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other liberal democracies have implemented when forced to choose between preserving freedom and combating racism. Bleich’s comparative historical approach reveals that while most countries have increased restrictions on racist speech, groups and actions since the end of World War II, this trend has resembled a slow creep more than a slippery slope. Each country has struggled to achieve a balance between protecting freedom and reducing racism, and the outcomes have been starkly different across time and place. Building on these observations, Bleich argues that we should pay close attention to the specific context and to the likely effects of any policy we implement, and that any response should be proportionate to the level of harm the racism inflicts. Ultimately, the best way for societies to preserve freedom while fighting racism is through processes of public deliberation that involve citizens in decisions that impact the core values of liberal democracies — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Hate speech — Europe, Western.
• Race discrimination — Law and legislation — Europe, Western.
• Hate speech — United States.
• Race discrimination — Law and legislation — United States.

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