Anna Freisler
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Anna Freisler (d. 1997) was the wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof (People's court), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin.
In 1985 there was a scandal about the widow who had been living under an assumed name in Munich since the end of World War II. It turned out that in 1974 her pension had been raised by about 400 DM. The reason given by the appropriate pension office was that her deceased husband in the event of survival presumably would have been hired as a lawyer or a high ranking official. This decision was protested by a member of the Landtag of Bavaria but he was rejected by the state government without any consequences for Anna Freisler. This was one of the last reflexes of the very problematic issue of social integration of national socialist jurists into the Federal Republic of Germany in the early years.[citation needed]
