US General George Patton explicitly kept saying out loud that "we're fighting the wrong people" towards the end of the war. He was also fond of questioning the necessity of denazification after the war. Then of course there was Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, Operation Unthinkable, Operation Bloodstone, the Gehlen organization and its CIA ties, Adolf Heusinger in NATO, the Schnezz Truppe, the pivoting away from Denazification to capitalist restructuring under Adenhauer and the so called Christian Democrats, the huge injections of Marshall Plan money into building up West Germany immediately after the war, which was framed as an "economic miracle" of capitalism rather than a giant state-sanctioned giveaway to the "former" Nazis.
US General George Patton explicitly kept saying out loud that "we're fighting the wrong people" towards the end of the war. He was also fond of questioning the necessity of denazification after the war. Then of course there was Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, Operation Unthinkable, Operation Bloodstone, the Gehlen organization and its CIA ties, Adolf Heusinger in NATO, the Schnezz Truppe, the pivoting away from Denazification to capitalist restructuring under Adenhauer and the so called Christian Democrats, the huge injections of Marshall Plan money into building up West Germany immediately after the war, which was framed as an "economic miracle" of capitalism rather than a giant state-sanctioned giveaway to the "former" Nazis.