Word: postfacto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...switch the case to another charge: that of being a Communist. By the present Nazi laws, membership in that party can be construed as high treason; and on that basis Torgler, Dmitroff, and Ten-off may be returned to their prison camps for life. To say that this is postfacto and the sentence unjust, may be right but it will not affect the court's decision. The Nazis don't dare to back down; and the alternatives are, as Pollux termed it succinctly, disgusting. Castor
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