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in some way, Radbruch did formulate the essence of Art. 1 GG: Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority. before the people met to draft it.
– Trish
Commented Mar 18, 2023 at 9:58
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The GDR example is one of many: whenever there is a revolution or a big change in government, people tend to be judged for the acts they committed prior to the change.
– Stef
Commented Mar 18, 2023 at 10:31
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@Stef But rarely does the new government try to adhere as scrupulously to legal standards as in the Nuremberg trials and the GDR trials.
– Peter - Reinstate Monica
Commented Mar 18, 2023 at 11:08
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Wasn't the official opinion in Western Germany that the territory and population of the GDR are actually part of Germany, but not under (Western) German control? The GDR was never really acknowledged as a foreign country. So one could argue that the Grundgesetz was already law in the whole of Germany, it was just impossible to enforce it in Eastern Germany.
– J Fabian Meier
Commented Mar 18, 2023 at 19:30
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@JFabianMeier That stance was abandoned several years before the reunification.
– Trish
Commented Mar 19, 2023 at 12:49

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