German justice system was contaminated by Nazis for decades after WWII – researchers – Until the early 70s, more than 80% of top judicial officials had worked in Hitler’s justice apparatus, 3 in 4 belonged to the Nazi party | Timesofisrael

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s justice system was still filled with former Nazis well into the 1970s, as the Cold War colored efforts to root out fascists, according to a damning official inquiry presented Thursday.
In the 600-page collection of findings entitled “State Security in the Cold War,” historian Friedrich Kiessling and legal scholar Christoph Safferling focused on the period from the early 1950s until 1974.