Retribuce a činnost ministerstva spravedlnosti v letech 1945–1947
The Retributive Justice and the Ministry of Justice in 1945–1947

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the relation of the Ministry of Justice to the retributive justice in 1945–1948 based on the example of Extraordinary People’s Court in Mladá Boleslav. The new minister of Justice Jaroslav Stránský had to deal with important issues when preparing the retribution, since the Nazi occupation had left its marks on the Czechoslovak justice. First, it was necessary to take control over the situation on the liberated area where the Revolutionary People’s Courts took place. The Ministry also helped to put the regular retributive justice into practice by issuing various instructions, explaining the vague paragraphs of the Major Retribution Decree, and by facing the political pressure from the Communist Party. The retributive justice was seemingly finished in May 1947, yet, after events of February 1948, these issues were reopened by the new administration of the Ministry, which was represented by the Communist Alexej Čepička, who replaced the National Socialist Minister Prokop Drtina. A revision of retributive justice took place in 1948; however, in spite of a better coordination by the Ministry of Justice, it did not bring an expected success to the ruling party

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