Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power.

• stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it’s influence out?

  There’s a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who’s recollecting the countries he’s visited while at war. It’s a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you’d never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?

  We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is no excuse. The Allied powers could and should have trained up anti-fascists to fulfil those roles.

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  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They wouldn’t do that because the only durable anti fascists are leftists and they spent decades trying to destroy leftism.

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean like the Mossad?

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can you explain what you mean?

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And the anarchists would finally have utopia

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