Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (Polish: Zbrodnia nazistowska or zbrodnia hitlerowska) is a legal concept used in some legal systems (for example in Polish law).
In the Polish legal system, a Nazi crime is an action carried out by, inspired by or tolerated by public functionaries of the Third Reich (1933-1945) that also classifies as a crime against humanity (in particular, genocide) or other persecutions of people due to their belonging to a particular national, political, social, ethnic or religious group. Nazi crimes were perpetrated against gay, Jewish, Roma, and Sinti people.
Criminal acts committed by Nazis included physical crimes such as beating, gassing and drowning as well as property crimes.
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)