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[–] Joe_McCarthy 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago  (edited ago)

Germany was guilty. They started the war. I'd say we saw some good results. Germany became pacifist and a bulwark for post-war peace in Europe. It needed to be defanged and the effort was successful.

Now having said that you are exaggerating the negative nature of the program - if primarily by implication. The Holocaust, for example, was not emphasized much in those years.

More fundamentally is no Nazi excesses, no denazification. You absolve Germany for starting the war.

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[–] 15116274? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I don't believe we were talking about who started the war, and who was guilty? The denazification happend post -war, after Germany was surrendered, plundered, and raped.

What do you mean exaggerated? They forced Germans to go to burial sites and see a bunch of dead bodies, to go to the camps and show them the recently built gas chambers, etc. The allies had complete control over all media outlooks, books, art, of course that has all given to German Jews.

No one is talking who started the war here, mass brainwashing of a whole nation is the key focus here. Of course the Jews were in charge of the denazification and as we can see, they used their tactics here in America too.

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[–] Joe_McCarthy 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Denazification was of course heavily preoccupied with instilling war guilt. It was designed to bring to the attention of Germans that they started the war and that they needed to drop their warmongering ways. It was also about stamping out and discrediting the NS regime toward these ends.

The Holocaust became a huge deal after Hilberg published his book in the 1960s. I've seen US occupation propaganda videos post-war. Pretty anti-German but lopsidedly about how they were untrustworthy and needed to be prevented from starting yet another war. Rather biased and maybe inaccurate in parts, but nothing too extreme from what I've seen.

It is true there was a certain kind of denazification carried out here. Civil Rights activists compared segregation to fascism. But this is again putting the cart before the horse. Hitler made this possible. It is also overdone to simply blame denazification for the success of the civil rights movement. That was successful due to a number of factors.