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Along with the many stories of terrible suffering experienced by the Jewish people during World War II, a largely unknown testimony of God’s amazing grace emerged from the very place where justice was carried out upon some of the Holocaust’s leading perpetrators.
A paean of praise to the limitless mercy of God toward penitent sinners, it is bound to shock and offend in equal measure. Which is why, unnerved by the potential backlash from a populace not yet deemed ready for such sensation, the U.S. government censored news of the event for five years.
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Germany’s special envoy on anti-Semitism Felix Klein. (Courtesy German Interior Ministry)
But the question remains whether to introduce a single law to reform all the texts at once, or to approach them one by one.
Germany has already reformed several Nazi-era laws over the years, including the infamous Paragraph 175 that criminalized sex between men and was repealed in 1994.
More recently, a 1933 ban on medical practitioners “advertising” that they carry out pregnancy terminations was partially scrapped in 2019.
But some pertinent examples remain, including a law on altering names introduced by Nazi interior minister Wilhelm Frick in 1938.
Seated from left to right; Hitler; Rudolf Hess, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party; Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag; Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Wilhelm Frick, German Minister of the Interior, at the Sports Palace, in Berlin, on Sept. 26, 1938. (AP Photo)