Tainted prosecutors and accountability for Nazi crimes in West Germany

• In Event: Recent Work on Transitional Justice

Brief Overview

We investigate whether West German prosecutors' Nazi ties affected their decision to initiate prosecutions for Nazi crimes and whether this effect is moderated by the NS ties and political affiliations of their bureaucratic and political superiors.

Authors

• Georg Vanberg, Duke University

• Holger Lutz Kern, College of Social Science and Public Policy, Florida State University