You can’t be a former nazi. You either are or you aren’t.
Apparently those nazis love being liasons to the “filthy brown people” especially.
“Formerly Nazi” means ex nazi party members or where Ambassadors(or working/fighting for the government at some point) in the time of the nazi government?
If this includes people who where fighting for nazis then its stupid since EVERYONE(fighting age, elderly, women, kids) could have easily been forced into combat by the nazis like a lot of people where to some extent.
The DDR did a better job at calling out these nazi dogs than the BRD. But it is only one of the few things the DDR did better than the BRD. And many DDR policies could be called fascist themselves.
I recently watched a movie on Netflix about Israelis catching one of the architects of the holocaust, Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Reading up on it, apparently the Americans and the West Germans already knew the whereabouts of this man, but they found it convenient to let this man get away with his crimes, because of cold war reasons.
Nazis working in high positions in the west is not really surprising. Take a look at this person, [Hans Globke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke). Man used to work in Office for Jewish affairs and wrote many of the laws that led to the Holocaust. Post war he became one of the most powerful men in West German intelligence. He was even honoured with awards by West Germany, Austria, Portugal, Italy and Luxembourg. So much for denazification.
The East and West German standards of Nazi were rather different. To be considered a Nazi in the West, you had to demonstrate willingness to participate in the Nazi atrocities, and this had to be proven before a court of law — which, admittedly, could get complicated.
To be a Nazi in the East, you needed to have shit (or a nice position) under the Nazis.
>For several years, Riesser also served as West Germany’s diplomatic observer at the UN. His successor as consul general in New York was Adolph Reifferscheidt, an old acquaintance of Adenauer’s and an industrial manager who, during the Nazi regime, had been removed from an important job because he refused to join the Nazi party.
Although German history-deniers will say things like “everyone was a Nazi party member” or “membership was compulsory”, this is not the case. Party membership peaked around 8-9 million, i. e. less than 20% of the population. If West Germany had ever been serious about denazification, they could have chosen diplomats and other senior officials from the other 80%, but they didn’t. And bringing up the GDR is pure whataboutism.
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Oh yeah, famous denazification. My ass
Confused New Zealand
You can’t be a former nazi. You either are or you aren’t.
Apparently those nazis love being liasons to the “filthy brown people” especially.
“Formerly Nazi” means ex nazi party members or where Ambassadors(or working/fighting for the government at some point) in the time of the nazi government?
If this includes people who where fighting for nazis then its stupid since EVERYONE(fighting age, elderly, women, kids) could have easily been forced into combat by the nazis like a lot of people where to some extent.
The DDR did a better job at calling out these nazi dogs than the BRD. But it is only one of the few things the DDR did better than the BRD. And many DDR policies could be called fascist themselves.
I recently watched a movie on Netflix about Israelis catching one of the architects of the holocaust, Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Reading up on it, apparently the Americans and the West Germans already knew the whereabouts of this man, but they found it convenient to let this man get away with his crimes, because of cold war reasons.
Nazis working in high positions in the west is not really surprising. Take a look at this person, [Hans Globke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke). Man used to work in Office for Jewish affairs and wrote many of the laws that led to the Holocaust. Post war he became one of the most powerful men in West German intelligence. He was even honoured with awards by West Germany, Austria, Portugal, Italy and Luxembourg. So much for denazification.
The East and West German standards of Nazi were rather different. To be considered a Nazi in the West, you had to demonstrate willingness to participate in the Nazi atrocities, and this had to be proven before a court of law — which, admittedly, could get complicated.
To be a Nazi in the East, you needed to have shit (or a nice position) under the Nazis.
[denazification](https://youtu.be/DueSvcjn810)
Mein Opa war kein Nazi! Er war nur Koch!
Worth remembering that Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi party too. Being a member didn’t automatically make you evil.
Also this map is unfair to at least one ambassador.
[https://books.google.ie/books?id=PGlwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT106&lpg=PT106&dq=%22Adolph+Reifferscheidt%22+nazi&source=bl&ots=NswmHtvtox&sig=ACfU3U3bICOd1nHQ2d14IPjjZgNkMeaWlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJquiy0ev1AhXRasAKHZd0D5IQ6AF6BAgPEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Adolph%20Reifferscheidt%22%20nazi&f=false](https://books.google.ie/books?id=PGlwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT106&lpg=PT106&dq=%22Adolph+Reifferscheidt%22+nazi&source=bl&ots=NswmHtvtox&sig=ACfU3U3bICOd1nHQ2d14IPjjZgNkMeaWlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJquiy0ev1AhXRasAKHZd0D5IQ6AF6BAgPEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Adolph%20Reifferscheidt%22%20nazi&f=false)
>For several years, Riesser also served as West Germany’s diplomatic observer at the UN. His successor as consul general in New York was Adolph Reifferscheidt, an old acquaintance of Adenauer’s and an industrial manager who, during the Nazi regime, had been removed from an important job because he refused to join the Nazi party.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Reifferscheidt
It’s about east or west Germany?
Although German history-deniers will say things like “everyone was a Nazi party member” or “membership was compulsory”, this is not the case. Party membership peaked around 8-9 million, i. e. less than 20% of the population. If West Germany had ever been serious about denazification, they could have chosen diplomats and other senior officials from the other 80%, but they didn’t. And bringing up the GDR is pure whataboutism.