Tag #Institutional Memory

What specific actions or policies reveal a failure to adequately address the Nazi past within the Bavarian judiciary after 1945?

A study of 69 Bavarian jurists' personnel files from 1945-1970 revealed that over half were former Nazi party members. Many continued their careers after the war, with their pasts routinely managed rather than deeply examined, highlighting a failure of the justice system's approach to denazification. This resulted in a notable continuity in personnel practices across the Weimar Republic, Nazi era, and Federal Republic of Germany.