Der verlorene Charme des Rechtsstaates: oder: was brachten die Mauerschützenprozesse?

In: Welt-Trends: das außenpolitische Journal, Heft 34, S. 97-109

Abstract

Discusses the balance between coming to terms with the past and the principle of prohibition of retroactive laws, that was stipulated by the 1990 German Unification Treaty and the Constitution, but broken in the trials against the "Mauerschützen" (border guards); Germany; 1989-2001. Summary in English p. 205.