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Maintaining relations with these groups would be the equivalent of maintaining relations with the Nazi Party in hopes of creating a working coalition...
...principle that an individual may be bound by a higher moral authority, beyond what the statutes provide, was established in West Germany decades ago, during trials of former Nazi leaders. Like Seidel, many Germans would apply the same theory in judging the discredited communist regime. But there are troubling doubts about the fairness of the principle or how it is applied. That was abundantly clear in Heinrich's case: right after the verdict, the prosecution joined the defense in vowing to appeal the sentence as too harsh...
...idea that a legal act can be made a crime retrospectively is alien to U.S. constitutional law -- as Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, often termed the conscience of the Republican Party at mid-century, noted in criticizing the Nazi trials. It is a "fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute," said Taft. "About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice." Vengeance is precisely the point for some Germans who have grievances against the East German state. But even if one views...
...Honecker, fled to Moscow to evade trial, and is living there under diplomatic protection at the Chilean embassy -- while suing the new government to restore his retirement pay. A letter from a West German retiree to one of Heinrich's co-defendants, border guard Andreas Kuhnpast, cynically recalled the Nazi trials. "Hold your head up high," it said. "Once again they're trying to hang the small fry and let the big shots run." Chancellor Helmut Kohl voiced similar sentiments at a lunch with foreign journalists last week. Said Kohl: "While I have no sympathy for people shooting...
...hopes that Buchanan will steal Bush's fire, we can't forget that he has shown us in recent national polls that cleaned up David Duke rhetoric can appeal nationally. Too harsh? I'll grant that Buchanan is obviously not an avowed Nazi, but too often putting "America first" seems to mean we must accept the white Catholic values he grew up with as those of a patriotic America...