New Histories of Law and Rights in Twentieth-Century Germany

IF 0.8 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Contemporary European History Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI:10.1017/s096077732300005x

S. Gehrig

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Abstract

On 1 March 2022, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock accused the Russian President Vladimir Putin's government of waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. Speaking at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), she drew explicit links to the Nazi war of aggression in order to legitimise sanctions against Russia as she stressed the UN's mission to work for peace enshrined in the UN charter. Twelve months earlier, in February 2021, the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz sentenced a forty-four-year-old Syrian citizen to four and a half years’ imprisonment. Based on the ‘shared values of humanity’, the verdict made headlines as the court explicitly cited the universal jurisdiction principle enshrined in the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch (VStGB) that had been enacted in 2002 to bring German law into accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.1 Since 2002, German courts have adopted these international law principles and legal norms in a series of legal actions against foreigners to prosecute crimes against humanity.

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二十世纪德国法律与权利新史

2022年3月1日，德国外交部长安娜莱娜·贝尔伯克指责俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京政府对乌克兰发动侵略战争。在联合国大会上发表讲话时，她明确指出了与纳粹侵略战争的联系，以使对俄罗斯的制裁合法化，同时她强调了联合国宪章所载的和平使命。12个月前，2021年2月，科布伦茨高级地区法院判处一名44岁的叙利亚公民四年半监禁。基于“人类的共同价值”，该判决成为头条新闻，因为法院明确引用了2002年颁布的Völkerstrafgesetzbuch (VStGB)中所载的普遍管辖权原则，该原则使德国法律与《国际刑事法院罗马规约》相一致。自2002年以来，德国法院在一系列针对外国人起诉反人类罪的法律行动中采用了这些国际法原则和法律规范。

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Contemporary European History Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short time span, the journal achieves both range and depth in its coverage. It is open to all forms of historical inquiry - including cultural, economic, international, political and social approaches - and welcomes comparative analysis. One issue per year explores a broad theme under the guidance of a guest editor. The journal regularly features contributions from scholars outside the Anglophone community and acts as a channel of communication between European historians throughout the continent and beyond it.