There are 29 German legal or regulatory texts that still use wording introduced when Hitler was in power, according to Felix Klein, the government's point man for fighting anti-Semitism.Some of them have"a very clear anti-Semitic background", Klein told AFP.
Germany has already reformed several Nazi-era laws over the years, including the infamous Paragraph 175 that criminalised sex between men and was repealed in 1994.More recently, a 1933 ban on medical practitioners"advertising" that they carry out pregnancy terminations was partially scrapped in 2019.
The law"played a huge role in the exclusion and disenfranchisement of Jews", said Thorsten Frei, deputy leader of the conservative CDU party's parliamentary group.The section on Jewish names was scrapped by the Allies immediately after World War II, but the remaining text from 1938 was incorporated into federal law in 1954.
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Soon Germany will have only Islamic Shariah law in full force
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