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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several Nazi-era laws over the years, including the infamous Paragraph 175 that criminalized sex between men and was repealed in 1994.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)
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Vague, abusive, and indiscriminate use of language is common in political discourse, and currently is more ubiquitous than ever. In recent decades, one of the most popular terms of political abuse has been “fascist.” The practice of misusing this word quickly reached heights of hysteria during the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016. Its use has become so indiscriminate that some complain the word has lost any precise meaning save that of disapproval.
“Fascist” is particularly useful as a multipurpose pejorative because the term lacks any clear inherent meaning, however broad, as do other common words such as “liberal,” “conservative,” or “socialist.” The term was initially derived from the
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