Germany, 1951: Solidarity with Nazi mass murderers | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW
Germany, 1951: Solidarity with Nazi mass murderers Seventy years ago, thousands of Germans gathered in the Bavarian town of Landsberg to demonstrate against the death penalty for Nazi war criminals. The event shows how little awareness of guilt there was among Germans. A third of Landsberg's population turned out in their best Sunday clothes to protest against the execution of Nazi war criminals The people of Landsberg am Lech, some 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of Munich, decided to dress up for the occasion on January 7, 1951. It was a Sunday, and 4,000 people — almost a third of the town...
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