History A-Level
1954 amnesty
What 1954 amnesty means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of 1954 amnesty
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A legal measure of the 1950s, alongside the 1951 law implementing Article 131 of the 1949 Basic Law, through which West Germany handled de-Nazification.
Topics that use 1954 amnesty
- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 4 Establishing and ruling the new Federal Republic, 1949–60 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- coming to terms with the past
- Constitutional design and democratic stability
- de-Nazification
- Democratic consolidation and legitimacy
- Federalism and pluralism
- Provisional sovereignty and reunification
- Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial
- Economic and social policy
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