This article examines the practices and experiences of administering transitional justice in postwar eastern Germany after 1945, focusing on the adjudication of informers as indirect perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Allied occupation law allowed for the prosecution of informers retroactively in the German courts through legislation specifically enacted for the purpose of prosecuting crimes against humanity. This paper examines implementation of the law and the prosecution of informers in the Soviet occupation zone, under the auspices of the Soviet military government administration, and later in the nascent German Democratic Republic of Germany. This paper also addresses the theoretical and practical problems associated with the implementation of the law and the lessons to be drawn from this historically significant attempt to call individuals to account for their crimes against humanity after they had occurred through the use of retroactive legislation.
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