Der Strafrechtliche Schutz Des Sozialistischen Eigentums in Der DDR

This book contains the first complete presentation of the protection of socialist property under criminal law in the GDR. According to GDR principles, socialist property was considered to be the people's property, the property of socialist cooperatives and the property of their parties and popular organizations. The author describes an increased liberalization and also depolitization of the practice of criminal law in this area. The final chapter discusses if and to what extent criminal law in the GDR used to protect socialist property was, in fact, an unjust criminal law.