Martin Antonenko
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A Shame!
The date - 40 years after the fall of the Nazi dictatorship - is actually a shame!
The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany took its time until January 25, 1985, until it finally came to the decision to deny all judgments of the Nazi People's Court "any legal effect in the Federal Republic of Germany".
Here are excerpts from the Bundestag minutes...:
Up to this day, for example, the Scholl siblings and the men of July 20, 1944 were considered criminals with a criminal record!
The "Volksgerichtshof" (VGH) ("People's Court") was set up in Berlin on April 24, 1934 as a special court to try high treason and treason against the Nazi state. His task is a "public hygiene task", according to his third president, Otto Georg Thierack, who has been Minister of Justice since 1942...:
Around 5,200 death sentences were carried out by 1945. Offenses such as those against the ordinance on extraordinary broadcasting measures, i.e. the dissemination of messages from “enemy radio stations” that had been tapped, pejorative remarks about the Führer (Hitler) or doubts about the so-called “final victory” were sufficient for a conviction.
Not a single judge of the "People's Court" (or even any other court!) was prosecuted after 1945!
In particular, conservative circles of the CDU/CSU had resisted the Bundestag resolution of January 25, 1945 with all their might.
The maxim applied: "What was right back then must not be wrong today!", as stated by the CDU Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (and deputy CDU federal chairman) Hans Filbinger (who, as a naval judge, passed at least one death sentence and had it carried out , namely my uncle!) on May 15, 1978 so aptly formulated…
(And this Filbinger was hailed as a "resistance fighter" by his successor Hans-Günther Oettinger (then EU Commissioner) on the occasion of his death...)
The date - 40 years after the fall of the Nazi dictatorship - is actually a shame!
The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany took its time until January 25, 1985, until it finally came to the decision to deny all judgments of the Nazi People's Court "any legal effect in the Federal Republic of Germany".
Here are excerpts from the Bundestag minutes...:
Up to this day, for example, the Scholl siblings and the men of July 20, 1944 were considered criminals with a criminal record!
The "Volksgerichtshof" (VGH) ("People's Court") was set up in Berlin on April 24, 1934 as a special court to try high treason and treason against the Nazi state. His task is a "public hygiene task", according to his third president, Otto Georg Thierack, who has been Minister of Justice since 1942...:
Around 5,200 death sentences were carried out by 1945. Offenses such as those against the ordinance on extraordinary broadcasting measures, i.e. the dissemination of messages from “enemy radio stations” that had been tapped, pejorative remarks about the Führer (Hitler) or doubts about the so-called “final victory” were sufficient for a conviction.
Not a single judge of the "People's Court" (or even any other court!) was prosecuted after 1945!
In particular, conservative circles of the CDU/CSU had resisted the Bundestag resolution of January 25, 1945 with all their might.
The maxim applied: "What was right back then must not be wrong today!", as stated by the CDU Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (and deputy CDU federal chairman) Hans Filbinger (who, as a naval judge, passed at least one death sentence and had it carried out , namely my uncle!) on May 15, 1978 so aptly formulated…
(And this Filbinger was hailed as a "resistance fighter" by his successor Hans-Günther Oettinger (then EU Commissioner) on the occasion of his death...)
