Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.
From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.
Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler's rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.
Alot of nazis basically kept doing what they already did like in the US's operation bloodstone.
And imperial core countries in general.
There were more Nazis in West Germany's justice department after WWII than during Third Reich for example
Nazis in post-WW2 Germany's government
Alot of nazis basically kept doing what they already did like in the US's operation bloodstone.