Acknowledgments
I have besieged friends for years on this project. I cannot begin to list the help which I have received, but I owe everything to it. I would mention first the encouragement I have received from the former journalist and prize-winning crime-fiction writer Ulrich Ritzel – his fierce commitment to justice in both writing modes has been inspirational. I would like to thank the very gifted students of Law and German in Trinity College Dublin and University College Galway for engaging in discussion. Thanks are due to Stephen Mennell for advice and guidance on sociological matters. Bill and Sheila Bell sorted me out on the Dreyfus Affair. Dick Jones was a steadying hand in Chapter Five. Mary Cosgrove set my view of Auschwitz. Hannes Krauss guided me through the intricacies of Chapter Eight. Gilbert Carr read me through the Environment, while Richard Ullmer not only breathed green air into Ireland, he put me in touch with Herr Matthias Möller-Meinecke of the Rechtsanwaltskanzlei EDIFICIA in Frankfurt who gave me wonderful material taken from his own fight for the environment. Deirdre Byrnes, Jeanne Riou and Caitriona Leahy lent their wise heads to the enterprise. Dickson Ensonrae, LLB, LLM made himself available for wide-ranging discussions of points of law, and Tim O’Neill – a fine barrister and finer colleague in University College Dublin – helped me to see what the law is and can do. My friend, the late Colin Seymour-Ure, gave me access to his unrivalled understanding of the workings of the press. Other conversations which have taken place over the years in Crivitz, The Maharees and Zehlendorf have helped and cheered me in this project more than I can say. With some of the books listed in my bibliography I feel I have lived as with friends, and I thank their authors warmly, just as I thank those kind and forbearing people who have helped me to find books in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Cambridge University Library and the British Library. I would like to put on record my appreciation of the skill and charm with which the editors of this series and Brill’s editorial staff – especially Gerda Danielsson Coe and Wendel Scholma – welcomed my book into their world. Also at Brill, Thalien Colenbrander helped me through the technical aspects of the book’s production with unfailing patience and expertise. Otherwise, as ever, I have gratefully exploited the time, patience and expertise of Jenny, Guy and Simon, Suzanne and Eva, to all of whom this book is dedicated.
Berlin, Dublin and Canterbury May 2019