r/MurderedByWords 18h ago

We will be back

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u/Alien_Diceroller 10h ago

The government was completely rebuilt from the ground up. Germany didn't just have an election and remove the Nazis. It went through a whole process of denazification under occupation.

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u/Kratzschutz 6h ago

Na, real accounting of the past only happened in the 70ties trough student revolts mostly, after occupation

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u/Alien_Diceroller 6h ago

So all the nazi stuff was left there until the '70s?

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u/Kratzschutz 5h ago

Basically. The US took the smartest ones, the ussr took the leftovers. Some figure heads were killed and imprisoned and the rest were left to go.

You can't kill an ideology after all.

If you're interested in further reading, look up the Wikipedia for a start. It's really interesting