Popular justice in Europe, 18th-19th Centuries

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In 1960, an article appeared in the weekly ''Die Zeit'' entitled: Keine Volksjustiz! (No Popular Justice!). Just a few days before, on January 16, Chancellor Adenauer, in a televised speech, encouraged German people to exercise self-justice against neo-Nazis who spread walls and synagogues with swastikas (''Wenn ihr irgendwo einen Lümmel erwischt, vollzieht die Strafe auf der Stelle''). According to Adenauer, they deserved a good hiding (''eine Tracht Prügel''), because this would be the right punishment (''Das ist die Strafe, die er verdient''). The journalist in ''Die Zeit'' found Adenauer's encouragement very dangerous for a state founded on the rule of law, and condemned what he called ''private sentencing'' ''justice based on hidings''... [Testo dell'editore].

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