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As far as public trials are concerned, all parties are in complete agreement: don't hold them. No one is qualified, they say to pass judgment on the East Germans, for no one knows with absolute certainty how he himself might have behaved under similar circumstances.
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Apart from the public rehabilitation of the victims, the effort to bring East German administrative criminals to justice would serve no practical purpose: it would simply announce the intent of a society to protect, under any and all circumstances, certain basic rules of communal human existence.
invites metaphysical speculation on what it means for something to be a crime if it takes place within a legal order. he also talks about Hannah Arendt's view on this (in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem), which he agrees with
As far as public trials are concerned, all parties are in complete agreement: don't hold them. No one is qualified, they say to pass judgment on the East Germans, for no one knows with absolute certainty how he himself might have behaved under similar circumstances.
[...]
Apart from the public rehabilitation of the victims, the effort to bring East German administrative criminals to justice would serve no practical purpose: it would simply announce the intent of a society to protect, under any and all circumstances, certain basic rules of communal human existence.
invites metaphysical speculation on what it means for something to be a crime if it takes place within a legal order. he also talks about Hannah Arendt's view on this (in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem), which he agrees with