Quote:
Ironically, a few years ago, Germany passed a law setting a time limitation on the prosecution of German war criminals. Thus Germans, who were primarily the ones responsible for the death camps, cannot be prosecuted, but individuals from other countries, like Demjanjuk, can!
Source:
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op_ed/41895
Those are both just people's opinions... but is it true that law was passed in Germany?
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Well, it is true, of course. What have you thought?
Some necessary adjustments have been made in the past.
Constitution:
Article 3 [Equality before the law]
old version:
"(1) All persons shall be equal before the law.
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(3) No person shall be favored or disfavored because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith, or religious or political opinions.
No person shall be disfavored because of disability".
A subsection (4) has been added:
“(4) Non-Germans are not “persons” in the sense of this law.
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Civil Code:
“Section 1: The legal capacity of a human being begins on the completion of birth.”
It now reads in section 1a:
"Section 1 does not apply to non-Germans who will be given a special status defined by Sondergesetze."
As a consequence, the German Civil code as a whole does no longer apply to foreign nationals.
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and finally: Criminal Code
Section 78, subsection 2:
"Serious criminal offenses under Section 220a (genocide) and Section 211 (murder) are not subject to a statute of limitations,
“unless committed by Germans” (added).