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
So Three Himmlers here is saying that a small controlled party of former wehrmacht is in the same league or even relevant to mention compared to literal SS members and Hitler’s inner circle leading the POLICY of the FRD.
The men of the Waffen-SS were soldiers like everybody else ... try to explain to other countries that the Waffen-SS had no connections with the Sicherheitsdienst and Gestapo! Try to explain to people that the Waffen-SS has not shot any Jews, but instead was a formation of soldiers that was most feared by the Soviets.
They were allowed to form a secret army the Schnez-Truppe which German intelligence gave approval to kill communists in case of civil war, though not much else is known though many members became NATO leaders.
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a Nazi party member along with 24 other cabinet members. Richard Jaeger was Justice Minister and had been a member of the SA.
Half the justice ministry were Nazis for 2 decades, including some particular monster. Men who had the ability to give out death sentences had deported Jews in Greece for instance. Your life could be decided by these fuckers, "justice" was handled by actual fascists.
Die Linke revealed a list of government officials who had been Nazi party members.
I know it is wikipedia but its a good paragraph
Several amnesty laws were also passed which affected an estimated 792,176 people. Those pardoned included people with six-month sentences, 35,000 people with sentences of up to one year and include more than 3,000 functionaries of the SA, the SS, and the Nazi Party who participated in dragging victims to jails and camps; 20,000 other Nazis sentenced for "deeds against life" (presumably murder); 30,000 sentenced for causing bodily injury, and 5,200 who committed "crimes and misdemeanors in office".[102] As a result, many people with a former Nazi past ended up again in the political apparatus of West Germany. In 1957, 77% of the German Ministry of Justice's senior officials were former Nazi Party members
Source for a list of them?
Not to doubt but ✍️
To what? The SS members?
FRD Chancellor Adenuer said of the SS
They were allowed to form a secret army the Schnez-Truppe which German intelligence gave approval to kill communists in case of civil war, though not much else is known though many members became NATO leaders.
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a Nazi party member along with 24 other cabinet members. Richard Jaeger was Justice Minister and had been a member of the SA.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/1011/Report-Germany-s-post-World-War-II-government-was-full-of-Nazis
Half the justice ministry were Nazis for 2 decades, including some particular monster. Men who had the ability to give out death sentences had deported Jews in Greece for instance. Your life could be decided by these fuckers, "justice" was handled by actual fascists.
https://www.ww2inprague.com/articles/the-role-ex-nazis-played-in-early-west-germany
Die Linke revealed a list of government officials who had been Nazi party members.
I know it is wikipedia but its a good paragraph
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nah I just quoted it. its from denazification