09:5309:53, 15 August 2018diffhist+17
Fritz Haarmann
"forever degraded as a citizen": This was, in all probability, no piece of rhethorics by the judge, but a rather misleading trial to translate into English what has a precise legal meaning in then-German law: loss of "bürgerliche Ehrenrechte" (such as voting, sitting on our nearest equivalent to a jury, etc.).
09:5309:53, 15 August 2018diffhist+17
Fritz Haarmann
"forever degraded as a citizen": This was, in all probability, no piece of rhethorics by the judge, but a rather misleading trial to translate into English what has a precise legal meaning in then-German law: loss of "bürgerliche Ehrenrechte" (such as voting, sitting on our nearest equivalent to a jury, etc.).