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{{Short description|Law enacted in post-war Germany repealing laws enacted by the Nazi regime}}
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The '''Control Council Law No. 1 – Repealing of Nazi Laws''' ({{Langx|de|Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1 betreffend die Aufhebung von NS-Recht}}, short form: ''Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1'') was a law enacted by the [[Allied Control Council]] for post-World War II Germany on 20 September 1945.
== Description ==
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It repealed numerous pieces of legislation enacted by the [[Nazi regime]]. It also prohibited the application of any German law that might discriminate against any person based on their race, nationality, religious beliefs, or opposition to the [[NSDAP]]. Similar guarantees were included in the [[Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany]] and, to a lesser extent, the original [[Constitution of East Germany]].
The repeal of the [[Enabling Act of 1933]] meant that the [[Weimar Constitution]] was re-established in theory, but that constitution remained irrelevant on the grounds that the Allied Control Council acted as [[Allied occupation of Germany|occupying forces]]. Further [[denazification]] of German legislation was carried out in the following years.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Loewenstein |first=Karl |date=1948-01-01 |title=Law and the legislative process in occupied Germany: I |url=https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol57/iss5/2|journal=Yale Law Journal |volume=57 |issue=5 |issn=0044-0094}}</ref>
== Text ==
The official text of the law was in the three languages of the occupying forces, although a non-binding German translation was provided. Signatories for the occupying forces were [[Bernard L. Montgomery]] (British), [[Louis Koeltz]] (French), [[Vasily Sokolovsky|Vassily Sokolovsky]] (Soviet) and [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (American).
== Fate of this law ==
In the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] the law became defunct with the First Law for Repealing Occupying Forces Legislation ({{lang|de|Erstes Gesetz zur Aufhebung des Besatzungsrechts}}) ([[Bundesgesetzblatt (Germany)|BGBl.]] I p.&nbsp;437) on 30 May 1955, with the previously repealed Nazi legislation staying invalid.
For the [[German Democratic Republic]], the [[Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union]] repealed the law on 20 September 1955.{{Cn|date=March 2023}}
== Explicitly repealed laws ==
* [[Ermächtigungsgesetz|Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich (Enabling Act)]] 24 March 1933 ([[Reichsgesetzblatt|RGBl.]]&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;41),
* [[Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums|Law for the Reconstitution of Officialdom]]. April 7, 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;175),
* [[Gesetz zur Änderung von Vorschriften des Strafrechts und des Strafverfahrens|Law for the amendment of the Provisions of Criminal Law and Procedure]] 24 April 1934 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;341),
* [[Gesetz zum Schutze der nationalen Symbole|Law for the Protection of National Symbols]] 19 May 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;285),
* [[Gesetz gegen die Neubildung von Parteien|Law Against the Formation of Parties]] 14 July 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I S.&nbsp;479),
* [[Gesetz über Volksabstimmung|Law on Plebiscites]] 14 July 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;479),
* [[Gesetz zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat|Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State]] 1 December 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1016),
* [[Gesetz gegen heimtückische Angriffe auf Staat und Partei und zum Schutz der Parteiuniformen|Law concerning insidious attacks against the State and the Party and for the protection of the Party Uniform and Insignia]] 20 December 1934 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1269),
* [[Reichsflaggengesetz|Reich Flag Law]] of 15 September 1935 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1145),
* [[Rassenschande|Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour]] 15 September 1935 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1146),
* [[Reichsbürgergesetz|Reich Citizen Law]] 15 September 1935 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1146),
* [[Gesetz über die Geheime Staatspolizei|Prussian Law concerning the Gestapo]] 10 February 1936 (PreußGS. p.&nbsp;21),
* [[Gesetz über die Hitler-Jugend|Hitler Youth Law]] 1 December 1936 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;933),
* [[Verordnung gegen die Unterstützung der Tarnung jüdischer Gewerbebetriebe|Ordinance against support for the Camouflaging of Jewish Businesses]] 22 April 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;404),
* [[Verordnung über die Anmeldung des Vermögens von Juden|Ordinance for the Reporting of Property of Jews]] 26 April 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;414),
* [[Gesetz zur Änderung der Gewerbeordnung für das Deutsche Reich|Law concerning the alteration of the trade regulations for the Reich]] 6 July 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;823),
* [[Namensänderungsverordnung|Second Carrying Out Ordinance of the Law concerning the changing of Family Names and Christian Names]] 17 August 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1044),
* [[Verordnung über Reisepässe von Juden|Ordinance concerning the Passports of Jews]] 5 October 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1342),
* [[Verordnung zur Ausschaltung der Juden aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftsleben|Ordinance for the elimination of Jews from economic life]] 12 November 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1580),
* [[Polizeiverordnung über das Auftreten der Juden in der Öffentlichkeit|Police Ordinance concerning the appearance of Jews in Public]] 28 November 1938 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1676),
* [[Verordnung über den Nachweis deutschblütiger Abstammung|Ordinance concerning proof of German descent]] 1 August 1940 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;1063),
* [[Polizeiverordnung über die Kennzeichnung der Juden|Police Ordinance concerning the marking of Jews]] 1 September 1941 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;547),
* [[Verordnung über die Beschäftigung von Juden|Ordinance concerning the employment of Jews]]  3 October 1941 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;675),
* [[Erlaß des Führers über die Rechtsstellung der NSDAP|Decree of the Führer concerning the legal status of the NSDAP]] 12 December 1942 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;733),
* [[Polizeiverordnung über die Kenntlichmachung der im Reich befindlichen Ostarbeiter und -arbeiterinnen|Police Ordinance concerning the identification of male and female workers from the East on Reich Territory]] 19 June 1944 (RGBl.&nbsp;I p.&nbsp;147).
== Implicitly repealed laws ==
* [[Gesetz über den Widerruf von Einbürgerungen und die Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit|Law concerning the repealment of Naturalisation and revocation of German Citizenship]] 14 July 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I S.&nbsp;480),
* [[Gesetz über die Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft|Law concerning the Admission to the Bar]] 7 April 1933 (RGBl.&nbsp;I S.&nbsp;188).
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Control_Council_Law_No_1_(20_September_1945)_Repealing_of_Nazi_Laws Full text of Control Council Law No 1 on Wikisource]
* [http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de45-49/kr-gesetz1.htm Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515144525/http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de45-49/kr-gesetz1.htm |date=15 May 2011 }}
* {{cite web|url=http://images.library.wisc.edu/History/EFacs/GerRecon/omg1945n013/reference/history.omg1945n013.i0006.pdf|title= Control Council Law No. 1}}
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