Berlin to pardon 30,000 Germans branded 'traitors' by the Nazis
Thirty thousand Germans condemned as traitors by Nazi courts in the Second World War are to get a posthumous pardon.
Twenty thousand were executed, often for crimes as trifling as writing a diary entry criticising Hitler. The other 10,000 were sentenced in wartime but not executed.
Relatives expressed some satisfaction that at last their ancestors will have the stigma of traitor lifted from them.
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Twenty thousand were executed, often for crimes as trifling as writing a diary entry criticising Hitler. The other 10,000 were sentenced in wartime but not executed.
Relatives expressed some satisfaction that at last their ancestors will have the stigma of traitor lifted from them.