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This study set itself the task of comparing the approaches of different post-war Justice Ministers towards retribution, i.e. regarding the punishment of war criminals, traitors and collaborators, in particular from their position in the government. Thanks to the records of post-war governments, in is possible to describe and evaluate the development of different phases, when certain changes could be implemented, when the first disputes occurred and how different ministers responded to these. The political struggle between democrats and communists on the further direction of post-war Czechoslovakia's domestic conditions and international orientation also had a marked impact on the overall problem of the practical execution of retributive justice.
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The revision of retributive justice has not previously been investigated comprehensively, despite the fact that it is a more controversial issue than the previous wave of retribution. Previous writings primarily use Ministry of Justice statistics, but these only include the number of convicted people, and not the number of cases of acquittal. As such, we consider this paper represents an initial study on researching the revision of retribution using statistical methods. Above all, it is a study which endeavours to use unprocessed archival material known about, and synthesise conclusions from this despite being aware of the shortcomings which will have to be dealt with in future. A previously unanswered question is the class profile of defendants and a percentage comparison with population numbers in the particular area. If a particular court convicted more farmers in an agricultural area, this finding will have a different relevance than if the court was near a large town with a higher proportion of clerics and entrepreneurs. One cannot use the data of defendants and those convicted in isolation without ascertaining the differentiation of society, and base our study only on the rules and assumptions set up by the regime at the time.
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