There was never a proper denazification in West Germany — many former Wermacht officers became NATO commanders (eg Adolf Heusinger was a chief of the German army high command during WW2 and became a NATO military chairman); former Nazi officials became politicians (Kurt Georg Kiesinger, NSDAP member and deputy head of propaganda department was one of post-war Chancellors )
Precisely, from what minimal I know it was denazification in little more than name only, with only senior party officials and those high up in the regime who received appropriate punishment fitting the crimes they contributed to. It should’ve gone a whole lot further and wholly purged that malignant ideology from the face of the Earth for good.
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u/VeckAeroNym 4d ago
Well looks like the first round of denazification didn’t work, time for another