This article is a reply to a statement by Elke Schwinger in WeltTrends 31. <br>The author
tries to strike the balance between "coming to terms with the past" and the role of
criminal law in this process in Germany. The principle of prohibition of retroactive
laws, fixed in the 1990 German Unification Treaty and in the Constitution, had been
broken in the trials against the "Mauerschützen" (border guards) in German criminal
courts since 1990. There is an artificially constructed past which does not correspond
to the reality of the border regime before 1989. <br>The author underlines that today the
criminal law is misused for political aims within the German unification process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:945 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Schöneburg, Volkmar |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | WeltTrends : Zeitschrift für internationale Politik und vergleichende Studien. - 34 (2002). - S. 97 – 109 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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