Definitions
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- noun social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism
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Examples
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Indeed, he admits that de-nazification "stopped abruptly" when West Germany became independent.
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What should have happened at the end of the cold war was a systematic de-nazification, but applied to marxism in all its forms.
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“What should have happened at the end of the cold war was a systematic de-nazification, but applied to marxism in all its forms.”.
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Even after WWII de-nazification was done slowly to keep the system running and rebuilding it with real democrats …
Five Years of War in Iraq – Mission accomplished | ultraorange.net 2008
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“When newspapers and magazines like Colliers picked up the story, it became a national scandal, eventually involving Eleanor Roosevelt, who pushed for a secret program of de-nazification and re-education, which was set up in 1944.”
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Not only could the case be the last in the long and painful history of 'de-nazification' in Germany, it is also the first time that German courts will try a foreign nazi.
cafebabel.com 2010
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Undoubtedly one of the last acts of de-nazification in history has been playing out inside the appellate court of Munich since 2 December.
cafebabel.com 2010
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However, Austria has a different post-war history with de-nazification, said Behrens, and this contributes to its current political situation.
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Despite a "de-nazification" program by the victorious Allies, adherents to Nazism attempted to create new political groups as early as 1948 in West Germany, but were ineffective at reviving the movement; many were later banned, as with the symbolism that was part of it, such as the swastika.
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Its well known that the US and USSR in particular employed nazi scientists after WW2 there was no comprehensive de-nazification of germany, many nazis continued to be employed. what you suggest would have been too much hassle with not enough financial gain for the likes of Cheney et al. Most of the honest military men would say nothing was done to win the peace.
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