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This case concerns the Nazis where Hitler government is ruling Germany. In 1944 a German soldier visited his wife and conveyed privately of his disapproval of Hitler. Shortly after his departure, his wife who had “turned to other men” reported his remarks to the local leader of the Nazi party to get rid of him. At that time, such remarks would had resulted death sentence. Instead of being executed, he was imprisoned for a while and later was sent to the front again. After the collapse of Nazi regime, the wife was brought to trial and her defense is that her husband’s statements constituted a crime under the Nazi laws then in force.

This Nazi law is what known as bad law by Professor Hart. However to him,

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