An official inquiry has found that Germany’s justice system was staffed with former Nazis for decades after the Second World War, At one point, three out of four top officials at the prosecutor’s office were former party members. The 600-page report, which was released on Thursday by Friedrich Kiessling (history) and Christoph Safferling (jurisprudence), covers the Cold War period from the 1950s to 1974. The work was commissioned by the federal prosecutor’s office. Learn more The researchers found that, at one point during the 1950s, roughly three in four top officials in the federal prosecutor’s office had been members of...