Tokens: Here
there
was
a
self
-
referential
situation
in
which
the
very
same
people
who
were
charged
with
responsibility
for
the
interpretation
,
administration
or
enforcement
of
the
law
defining
the
offence
propagated
the
“
State
practice
”
which
they
now
claim
to
have
been
the
source
of
their
own
understanding
of
the
law
and
thus
of
their
excuse
under
the
law
.
What
is
more
,
the
applicants
maintain
that
the
GDR
’s
State
practice
was
part
and
parcel
of
contemporaneous
objective
impunity
and
that
it
is
therefore
unacceptable
ex
post
to
activate
criminal
liability
for
their
acts
.
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