The circumcision law distinguishes legalized bodily harm from illegal bodily harm on anesthesia grounds

Evidence

1. Adequate training of the practitioners for non-medical circumcision during the first six months. 2. No specific requirement for the use of an ‘effective painkiller’, as ‘according to the standards of medical practice’ also covers the ‘necessary and effective treatment of pain in individual cases’. (If there is no anaesthesia the act remains bodily harm [Körperverletzung], but is not illegal [rechtswidrig].) 3. Parents are to be made aware of potential consequences. 4. The practice is not to be carried out on children who could be at risk of complications from non-medical circumcisers. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 914

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the German legal distinction between Körperverletzung (bodily harm, not necessarily illegal) and rechtswidrig (illegal) — a nuance worth keeping.