The United Nations Genocide Convention is now a law in this country – the land which originated the crime outlawed by the UN.
President Theodor Heuss today signed the bill passed by the West German Parliament incorporating into the penal code the provisions of the International Genocide Treaty already adopted by the United Nations. The Official Gazette immediately published the law, thereby completing its promulgation and formal enactment.
The measure interpolates into the penal code an article providing that life imprisonment–the highest physical penalty in the German penal code–may be imposed on any person guilty of genocide in this country in the future.
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