Just a few words on this. While its true that East-Germanys efforts to "de-nazify" the state where greater than in the west, to conclude that East-Germanies institutions did not tolerate former Nazi officials would be a mistake: 1/9
This is on the same level as pointing out that the Soviets brought on (forcibly) a bunch of German engineers to work in the Soviet aerospace industry. It's true that many of those Germans had worked for the Nazis making weapons and so on, but the leader of the Soviet space program was a Soviet citizen and not one of the former Nazis. Communists dealt with former Nazis practically, seeing the work as a form of reparations, then paid them a wage and sent them back after a couple of years - Capitalists put the former Nazis into high ranking positions, whitewashed their crimes during the war, and built them up as celebrities in propaganda footage.
If the former Nazis were able to achieve more in positions of leadership and the whitewashing prevented Nazi ideology from being advanced by these indivuals or on their behalf, wouldn't that also be a practical way of dealing with them?
This is on the same level as pointing out that the Soviets brought on (forcibly) a bunch of German engineers to work in the Soviet aerospace industry. It's true that many of those Germans had worked for the Nazis making weapons and so on, but the leader of the Soviet space program was a Soviet citizen and not one of the former Nazis. Communists dealt with former Nazis practically, seeing the work as a form of reparations, then paid them a wage and sent them back after a couple of years - Capitalists put the former Nazis into high ranking positions, whitewashed their crimes during the war, and built them up as celebrities in propaganda footage.
If the former Nazis were able to achieve more in positions of leadership and the whitewashing prevented Nazi ideology from being advanced by these indivuals or on their behalf, wouldn't that also be a practical way of dealing with them?
You could call that practical only if your goal was to advance fascist praxis while telling everyone else that it's not actually fascistic.
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Achieve more for what?