The Rejection of International Criminal Law in West Germany after the Second World War

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ID23599573
AuthorsGuillaume Mouralis (0009-0007-6718-6195, Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages226-241
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHistory, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137302052_14
OpenAlexW2471380559
ISBN9781137302052
LanguageEN
References cited13

On 26 June 2002 the international criminal code was adopted in Germany after a unanimous vote of the Bundestag (Deutscher Bundestag, 2002). 1 Following the ratification of the Rome Treaty, the new rule adapted the German criminal law to the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It seemingly introduced new legal categories, ‘crimes against humanity’ (§ 7) and ‘war crimes’ (§ 8–12), which – unlike ‘genocide’ – were unknown in West German criminal law since 1949. But in fact, this was a reintroduction rather than an introduction ex nihilo , for German courts had already been given the ability to punish these crimes under Allied occupation (1945–49). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Criminal law · Criminology · Political science · Sociology · World War II · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law

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