In a confidential circular, the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate has decreed that awards and certificates of merit will not be conferred upon civil servants who were ever convicted by an ordinary court or by a Nazi “special court.”
Since “special courts” were created by Hitler to handle cases of anti-Nazi political activity or of anti-Nazi attitude, the circular goes out of its way to penalize foes of Nazism, it is pointed out by the Union of Governmental Employees, which has brought the circular to public attention.
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