PHL271H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nazi Party, Strafgesetzbuch
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Judge is not lawful if he judges on the basis of the so-called "treachery act" or any other unfair nazi criminal law. In contrast, it is an unlawful act when one freely decides to report to the police the act of another that fulfills the requirements of an offence in terms of the. 1944: accused informed on her husband to local leader of nsdap (nazi worker"s party) 1940: she had told others of her intention to divorce him. ->accused reported this because she said "a man who says those things is not fit to live among humans" Report came to attention of trial court--> husband sentenced to death. however, after placed on probation, he was sent to front. Trial court: held that the act of accused did not constitute an illegal deprivation of liberty because it appeared that the report were results of his violations of valid legal provisions .
