Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws

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The Control Council Law No. 1 – Repealing of Nazi Laws (in German Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1 betreffend die Aufhebung von NS-Recht (short form: Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1) was a law enacted by the Allied Control Council for post-World War II Germany on 20 September 1945.

Description[]

It repealed numerous pieces of legislation enacted by the Nazi regime. Also, it prohibited the application of any German enactment that could discriminate against any person based on their race, nationality, religious beliefs or opposition against the NSDAP.

By repealing the Enabling Act, theoretically the Weimar Constitution was reestablished, however the constitution stayed irrelevant on the grounds of the powers of the Allied Control Council acting as occupying forces.

Further denazification of the legislation was conduced the following years.[1]

Text[]

The official text of the law was in the three languages of the occupying forces, a non-binding German translation was provided. Signatories for the occupying forces were Bernard L. Montgomery (British), (French), (Soviet) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (American).

Fate of this law[]

In the Federal Republic of Germany the law became invalid with the First Law for Repealing Occupying Forces Legislation (Erstes Gesetz zur Aufhebung des Besatzungsrechts) (BGBl. I p. 437) on 30 May 1955, with the previously repealed Nazi legislation staying invalid.

For the German Democratic Republic, the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union repealed the law on 20 September 1955.

Explicitly repealed laws[]

  • Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich (Enabling Act) 24 March 1933 ( I S. 41),
  • Law for the Reconstitution of Officialdom . April 7, 1933 (RGBl. I p. 175),
  • 24 April 1934 (RGBl. I p. 341),
  • 19 May 1933 (RGBl. I p. 285),
  • 14 July 1933 (RGBl. I S. 479),
  • 14 July 1933 (RGBl. I p. 479),
  • 1 December 1933 (RGBl. I p. 1016),
  • 20 December 1934 (RGBl. I p. 1269),
  • of 15 September 1935 (RGBl. I p. 1145),
  • Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour 15 September 1935 (RGBl. I p. 1146),
  • 15 September 1935 (RGBl. I p. 1146),
  • 10 February 1936 (PreußGS. p. 21),
  • 1 December 1936 (RGBl. I p. 933),
  • 22 April 1938 (RGBl. I S. 404),
  • 26 April 1938 (RGBl. I p. 414),
  • 6 July 1938 (RGBl. I p. 823),
  • 17 August 1938 (RGBl. I p. 1044),
  • 5 October 1938 (RGBl. I p. 1342),
  • 12 November 1938 (RGBl. I p. 1580),
  • 28 November 1938 (RGBl. I p. 1676),
  • 1 August 1940 (RGBl. I p. 1063),
  • 1 September 1941 (RGBl. I p. 547),
  • 3 October 1941 (RGBl. I p. 675),
  • 12 December 1942 (RGBl. I p. 733),
  • 19 June 1944 (RGBl. I p. 147).

Implicitly repealed laws[]

  • 14 July 1933 (RGBl. I S. 480),
  • 7 April 1933 (RGBl. I S. 188).

References[]

  1. ^ LOEWENSTEIN, KARL (1 January 1948). "LAW AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY: I". Yale Law Journal. 57 (5). ISSN 0044-0094.

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