Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law

The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Law is a 1950 Israeli law passed by the First Knesset. It provides a legal framework for the prosecution of crimes against Jews and other persecuted people committed in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. The law’s primary target was Jewish Holocaust survivors alleged to have collaborated with the Nazis. Around forty alleged Jewish collaborators were put on trial between 1951 and 1972, of which two-thirds were convicted. Three non-Jews were also prosecuted under the law.

About Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law in brief

The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Law is a 1950 Israeli law passed by the First Knesset. It provides a legal framework for the prosecution of crimes against Jews and other persecuted people committed in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. The law’s primary target was Jewish Holocaust survivors alleged to have collaborated with the Nazis, in particular prisoner functionaries and the Jewish Ghetto Police. Around forty alleged Jewish collaborators were put on trial between 1951 and 1972, of which two-thirds were convicted. Three non-Jews were also prosecuted under the law, including the high-profile cases of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk. It has a number of unusual provisions, including ex post facto application, extraterritoriality, a relaxation in the usual rules of evidence, and mandatory death sentence for the most serious crimes laid out in the law. The law punishes crimes against humanity, war crimes, and \”crimes against the Jewish people\”, as well as a variety of lesser offenses. The Holocaust was a genocide committed primarily by Nazi Germany that claimed the lives of six million Jews living in Germany and Germany- occupied Europe. Some members of Israel’s Jewish community believed that the new state should be pure of collaborators with theNazis. Some Holocaust survivors brought petitions to Israeli police alleging that other Holocaust survivors were Nazi collaborators, but there was no legal basis for prosecution in these cases.

In order to maintain order, postwar Jewish communities in displaced-persons camps set up ‘honor courts’ that would judge alleged collaborators, handing down sentences of public condemnation and social ostracism. Some alleged collaborators were subject to extrajudicial violence and even murder from other Holocaust Survivors. The Law will apply to Nazis who are here in the State of Israel less than their Jewish collaborators, including members of the Haninu, the Hanukkah party, and the Bnei Shabtai, the Haganah, the Tzemach, the Shas and the Yom Kippur party, among other groups. It will also apply to the perpetrators of the Holocaust, who could be charged on the basis of the laws of the Deuteronomy 14:14, derived from the phrase ‘let our camp be pure’ and ‘let us not be ashamed of our camp’ The law was eventually passed on 29 March 1950, and renamed the Nazi Collaborator Law. It was eventually changed to the Nazi collaborator Law on 27 March 1950. It is not clear if the law will be extended to include those who committed crimes against the Jews during the Second World War, or if it will only apply to those who were involved in the Holocaust after the war, such as those who fled to Israel in the 1930s and 1940s, or whether it will be expanded to include people who were not involved in any of the Nazi crimes during the Holocaust. In the 1950s, many Holocaust survivors immigrated to Israel; by the late 1950s they consisted one-quarter of the population.

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