@layman,
layman wrote: I did offer my opinion that future historians would regard her as a traitor
Even future historians will have to look at
a) the Basic Law of Germany,
b) the German Criminal Code.
Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege scripta, praevia, certa et stricta:
The four individual principles of the principle of legality:
- Necessity for the written determination of punish ability (prohibition of customary law establishing a criminal offence, nulla poena sine lege scripta),
- Necessity of fixation before the offence is committed (prohibition of retroactive effect under criminal law, nulla poena sine lege praevia),
- Necessity of sufficient certainty of the law (principle of criminal determination, nulla poena sine lege certa)
- Prohibition of analogy to the detriment of the offender beyond the wording of the law (prohibition of analogy in criminal law, nulla poena sine lege stricta).