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George M. Wunderlich letter. Jan. 12, 1943. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605221 and id is 1 raw text is: January 12, 1945

Colonel 7JSI.iam S. Culbertson
Oeneral, Staff
U, e. ar Department
Washington, D. C.
Dear Colonel Culbertson:
I refer to the eetings of the Executive Coaittee of the American Branch
ot the International Law Association on December 18, 1942. You told us that your
offloe is doing research rork on the Bill of Rights and the Habeas Corpus pro-
ceedings of other countries. I offered you my help as regards German law. As I
was in Vermont for quite a whilep I was unable to write earlier to you.
I am giving an outline on the German Federal and St--te lat-, say , since
1848, the year o  the democratic revolutions in Germany (which brought also Carl
Schurz to this country.) As this letter or rather its contents vill be part of
an -article I am just writing on treason and sabotage in Geramny betwe n 1871 and
now, I  ish to be quoed .should you make use of my information, rherever it is.
Otherwise, you sre free to make any use of it for the purposes of the United States.
The most useful bo64 for your purooses is:
Dr. jur. Brnst Eckhardt: Die Grundrachte voi Wiener Kongress bis zur Gegenw.art.
Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Verfassungogeschichte. Broslau; B, & H. Nrrcus; 1915
(March).XV plus 208 pages, It is an extended doctor thesis of the author,
obviously from the University of Tfbingen. It is published as Uo. So of the
Abbandlungen aus dem Staats-und Vervaltungerecht, mit Einschluss des Kolonial-
und V15lkerrechts.
Although German doctor thesis', in the average, are to be used vith due caution.,
this book is really good and gives complete material and shows good judgment, with-
out deviating from the comon opinion.
The various constitutions of the German States you find in the 'H2a=buch
der deutschen, Verfassungen by Professor Stoerk, and in the series of these Con-
stitutions .edited by Professor Dr. Karl Binding, several small volumes. Ail these
books and the hole material quoted by me will certainly be found in the Library
of Congress.
nGrundrechto are the fundamental rights of the individual, his freedoms.
Wherever you find Them :n the German Constitutions they were till 1918 merely
blanks and -i.thout actual applic bility, except they rere filled in by strong lars
and institutions hich enforced their execution. A change come only, up to a
certain degree, in the .eimar Constitution of the German Empire of August 11, 1919.
The Reichsverfassung of April 16, 1871, whose intellectual author vas the Imperial
ChancelLor Prince Otto von Bismarck, had no such Grundrechte at all and did not
need to have them as they vere either contained in #,e various fedekal laws or
in the State Constitutions  -In A      b.8/9, ermany hod t ied to change the German
Federation (Deutsc her Bund, hich isas no State, ;u 1 oily a Federation of States
Feeato   (Dushr      Id.

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