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Presidential Pardons

In February, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected president of Germany. A month later, his country was taken to court. Five years ago, when Steinmeier urged his government to confront atrocities perpetrated in colonial-era Africa, he had no idea that when he urged them to confront ‘this traumatic part of our national history’ it would land his country in a Manhattan courtroom facing charges of genocide, with potential damages in the tens of billions of dollars.