GERMANY: Hemlock & Pillory

Under his now unlimited powers as Realmleader, Adolf Hitler prepared last week to give the Fatherland a penal code sharply revised ''to conform with Nazi ideals of jurisprudence."

No jurist and lacking even a high school diploma, the intuitive Chancellor some months ago ordered Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner to produce concrete suggestions. Last week Dr. Gürtner advised Herr Hitler that the revised code should:

¶Empower judges to impose "in preference to heavy fines, sentences confiscating the entire property of the guilty."

¶Extend...

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