Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by anigbrowl 1833 days ago
Streicher was indeed sentenced to (short) terms in prison but it's not recorded that he ever had to serve any of them, being able o take advantage of criminal amnesties and later the privileges of a Reichstag deputy.

https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/4_an/4_Anti-Semitis...

To be sure, courts are meant to handle individual or corporate matters, and not ideal or even effective in the maintenance of polities. But it is a mistake to compare the Weimer-era standards with current hate speech laws in Europe since theya re separated by the facts of WW2 and the Holocaust.