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My mother used to go swimming with a woman who's dad was a Nazi officer who became the police chief in Hamburg. Who do you think took all the administrative pos
by rjzzleep 4y ago
My mother used to go swimming with a woman who's dad was a Nazi officer who became the police chief in Hamburg. Who do you think took all the administrative positions in Germany after the war? The biggest part of the population was in favour of the Nazis. They didn't suddenly change their minds.
Part of what the Stasi(the east German secret police) did in eastern Germany was to hunt Nazis. Now you can say how horrible the Stasi was and you might be right about it, but there is no denying that a significant part of their work was hunting Nazis and Nazi collaborators. But given the demographics of the country I'd be surprised if a big portion of the Stasi weren't Nazis at some point themselves.
The western German BND(Bundesnachrichtendienst) which is Germany's intelligence agency was founded with the help of the CIA by Reinhard Gehlen who was a general major in the Wehrmacht. The Spiegel - one of Germany's major newspapers - actually had very close ties to the BND and was instrumental to whitewashing the institutions history.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bnd-gehlen-illegal-erich-kaestner-1.4399255 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bnd-gehlen-illegal-erich...
- hef19898 4y agoGehlen was also in Fremde Heere Ost, military intelligence geared against the USSR. And we all know just how good the German intelligence assessment of the USSR was during WW2. And yes, that the Spiegel was closer to ex-Nazis than they care to admit today. Same with Stern and Nannen (famour publisher in post-war Germany, founder of a renowned prize for journalism and a journalism school), that guy actively served in a joint SS-Airforce propaganda unit in Italy.
- rjzzleep 4y agoI feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities. Let's not forget that Gehlen got greenlit to feed Nazi groups in an effort to counter soviet influence. Similarly the strong support of China was done in order to counter the soviets. In the end the Soviet-Union collapsed and China ended up being a much stronger adversary than the Russian would ever be.
- badpun 4y ago> I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities. It changed over time. During the late 40ties, the US was still confused about its position on the USSR - for example, in the occupied West Germany, the US confiscated hundreds of copies of Ukrainian translation of George's Orwel Animal Farm and handed it over to the Soviets to destroy it.
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