Germany still has an unexpected Nazi law | USA TODAY

BERLIN, Germany — Most Germans have consigned Hitler’s Third Reich to history.

But 70 years since the Fuhrer’s demise, his crude ideology still exerts a hold on public life in unexpected ways.

Part of Germany’s legal code in particular still has a strong whiff of Nazi thinking — especially the section about murder.

Written in 1941 by Nazi lawyer Roland Freisler, Germany’s criminal code defines a murderer as someone who kills „because of bloodlust, sexual gratification from killing, greed, or otherwise base motives.“…