Word: untersuchungshaft
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...course of justice, but must it run amok?" The language of Hamburg's Welt am Sonntag was inordinately strong, but then the German press and public had taken an inordinately long time to get upset. The cause of the outcry was an old German legal custom called Untersuchungshaft (investigative arrest), which has its roots in Roman law and allows a prosecutor to jail a mere suspect for years-so long as he can convince a judge that the man might flee the country or tamper with evidence and witnesses...
Sensational Arrests. Germans are distressingly familiar with Untersuchungshaft; it inevitably became a favorite Gestapo tactic. But only recently, as the result of a number of sensational investigative arrests, has a reform movement been started. Half a dozen ranking executives of West Germany's big Henschel Werke (locomotives, trucks, land movers) have been jailed on suspicion of defrauding the West German Defense Ministry, including President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed...
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