>Germany’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor in the first couple of decades after World War II was dominated by lawyers associated with the former Nazi party, according to the findings of an extensive study commissioned by German Attorney General Peter Frank in 2018. The results of the study were released on Thursday.
>At the presentation, Frank warned that state attorneys should not view the report as confirmation of moral superiority, but rather to remain alert.
>The Nazi era in Germany showed like no other period “how manipulative ideologically based legal systems are,” according to deputy Justice Minister Margaretha Sudhof.
Well, this isn’t exactly a surprise: in the immediate aftermath of WW2, just how many German lawyers even existed who hadn’t been Nazi Party members? That’s what “Gleichschaltung” means.
> report puts a spotlight on something I learned in school in the 90s
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>Germany’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor in the first couple of decades after World War II was dominated by lawyers associated with the former Nazi party, according to the findings of an extensive study commissioned by German Attorney General Peter Frank in 2018. The results of the study were released on Thursday.
>At the presentation, Frank warned that state attorneys should not view the report as confirmation of moral superiority, but rather to remain alert.
>The Nazi era in Germany showed like no other period “how manipulative ideologically based legal systems are,” according to deputy Justice Minister Margaretha Sudhof.
Well, this isn’t exactly a surprise: in the immediate aftermath of WW2, just how many German lawyers even existed who hadn’t been Nazi Party members? That’s what “Gleichschaltung” means.
> report puts a spotlight on something I learned in school in the 90s
Okay.