> But weren't these former NSDAP members the only
> people
> with the legal training to function as judges?
>
I should say that I don't know the situation in Germany in 1945, but if, say, Khrushchev had only allowed people to serve in official positions who had not participated in the Purges, there would have been no one to serve.
Sometimes practicality is the better part of valor.
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