Law on imposition and enforcement of the death penalty (known colloquially as Lex van der Lubbe) was a German law enacted by the Nazi regime on 29 March 1933, that imposed the death penalty for certain crimes such as arson and high treason, that had formerly meant whole life imprisonment.[1][2] The name derives from the fact that the law formed the legal basis for the imposition of the death penalty on Marinus van der Lubbe, who had been caught in the arson attack on the Reichstag on 28 February 1933.[3]
- ^ "Law for the Imposition and Implementation of the Death Penalty". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst; Meierhenrich, Jens (20 December 2018). The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-102534-1.
- ^ Hett, Benjamin Carter (2014). Burning the Reichstag : an investigation into the Third Reich's enduring mystery. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780199322329. Retrieved 2 October 2021.