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Even in post-war West Germany, "denazification", e.g. excluding ex-nazis from roles in the new German society, was a failed policy that got discontinued after a

Even in post-war West Germany, "denazification", e.g. excluding ex-nazis from roles in the new German society, was a failed policy that got discontinued after a few years.

immibis 2y ago
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- lupusreal 2y ago
  That's hyperbolic nonsense. Germany today is a liberal democracy.
Yeul 2y ago
If memory serves the entire West German intelligence apparatus was run by ex Nazis. The BRD was like that famous Fawlty Towers sketch. "Don't mention the war!".
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- RalfWausE 2y ago
  Well, if you look into the whole ordeal regarding the planned ban of the NPD a few years ago, the whole NSU ordeal and the things regarding the AfD i would guess not much has changed...
  - immibis 2y ago
    Odd that you're allowed to say this but I'm not. Is it because I mentioned the relationship between Germany and Israel?
    - RalfWausE 2y ago
      Huh? I mean, even major news outlets in germany (even government owned) reported about the... ehm... "interesting" relationship of the various intelligence agencies and the far right... Just to be curious, what did you write about Israel and Germany?
      - immibis 2y ago
        Hacker News is best viewed with showdead enabled, and then you will be able to see it.
psunavy03 2y ago
It got sabotaged by the ex-Nazi West Germans, who realized they could use West German re-armament and NATO membership (which was needed against the Soviets) as leverage to pressure the Allies to drop denazification and look the other way at them pushing the "Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht."
vkou 2y ago
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- shadowgovt 2y ago
  I wonder from time-to-time how many Richmonders realize that the Union didn't burn down the town; the Confederacy did to deprive the Union of the munitions stores. Richmonders were trying to put the fire out because, well, it was destroying their homes. Portions of the city that were razed weren't rebuilt until into the Nineties (the 1990s). But somehow, a mythology clings on that the Union were the problem, not the people carrying the torches.
- hydrogen7800 2y ago
  Key difference: Denazification was imposed on Germany from the Allies. There was no such force during reconstruction.
  - vkou 2y ago
    Half the purpose of reconstruction was purging Confederates from any position of political influence. Unfortunately, a campaign of terrorism that culminated in the crooked compromise of 1877 brought an end to that.
- marcusverus 2y ago
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Even in post-war West Germany, "denazification", e.g. excluding ex-nazis from roles in the new German society, was a failed policy that got discontinued after a few years.

immibis 2y ago

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lupusreal 2y ago
That's hyperbolic nonsense. Germany today is a liberal democracy.

Yeul 2y ago

If memory serves the entire West German intelligence apparatus was run by ex Nazis. The BRD was like that famous Fawlty Towers sketch. "Don't mention the war!".

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RalfWausE 2y ago
Well, if you look into the whole ordeal regarding the planned ban of the NPD a few years ago, the whole NSU ordeal and the things regarding the AfD i would guess not much has changed...
- immibis 2y ago
  Odd that you're allowed to say this but I'm not. Is it because I mentioned the relationship between Germany and Israel?
  - RalfWausE 2y ago
    Huh? I mean, even major news outlets in germany (even government owned) reported about the... ehm... "interesting" relationship of the various intelligence agencies and the far right... Just to be curious, what did you write about Israel and Germany?
    - immibis 2y ago
      Hacker News is best viewed with showdead enabled, and then you will be able to see it.

psunavy03 2y ago

It got sabotaged by the ex-Nazi West Germans, who realized they could use West German re-armament and NATO membership (which was needed against the Soviets) as leverage to pressure the Allies to drop denazification and look the other way at them pushing the "Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht."

vkou 2y ago

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shadowgovt 2y ago
I wonder from time-to-time how many Richmonders realize that the Union didn't burn down the town; the Confederacy did to deprive the Union of the munitions stores. Richmonders were trying to put the fire out because, well, it was destroying their homes. Portions of the city that were razed weren't rebuilt until into the Nineties (the 1990s). But somehow, a mythology clings on that the Union were the problem, not the people carrying the torches.
hydrogen7800 2y ago
Key difference: Denazification was imposed on Germany from the Allies. There was no such force during reconstruction.
- vkou 2y ago
  Half the purpose of reconstruction was purging Confederates from any position of political influence. Unfortunately, a campaign of terrorism that culminated in the crooked compromise of 1877 brought an end to that.
marcusverus 2y ago
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- AnimalMuppet 2y ago
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