Word: gurtner
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate to the evil." This German reversion to an eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth caused Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes to break the delegates' self-imposed rule of silence...
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