From Hitler’s Courts to West Germany’s Supreme Bench: Willi Geiger
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The Reichstag burns — and Germany’s democracy burns with it.
In the aftermath of the 1933 fire, Adolf Hitler seizes absolute power, silencing political opponents, the free press, and the rule of law. Among those who embrace the new order is a young jurist, Willi Geiger, who joins the Nazi movement and rises through the ranks of Hitler’s judiciary. As prosecutor and later judge at the People’s Court, Geiger helps enforce Nazi “justice,” securing death sentences and praising censorship as a tool of racial purity.
After the war, he is declared “exonerated” and quietly returns to power — eventually becoming a Justice of West Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, shaping the very democracy he once helped destroy.
His story exposes the troubling continuity of power in postwar Germany — and the moral cost of forgetting.
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