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The biggest problem with this episode by far is how they don't emphasize at all just how not denazified West Germany was. Weird stuff about being upset at rehabilitated nazis in the East but not the people directly in control in the West. Pretty cringe.
Because if they mentioned that, it would provide an avenue for people to question their narrative that the stasi existed solely for oppression of workers instead of as a very effective denazification program.
Isn't there some easy statistic that there literally was more ("former") members of the nazi party in west german government positions in the decades after the war than active nazi party members in the state during the actual time of nazi germany?
The biggest problem with this episode by far is how they don't emphasize at all just how not denazified West Germany was. Weird stuff about being upset at rehabilitated nazis in the East but not the people directly in control in the West. Pretty cringe.
Because if they mentioned that, it would provide an avenue for people to question their narrative that the stasi existed solely for oppression of workers instead of as a very effective denazification program.
Isn't there some easy statistic that there literally was more ("former") members of the nazi party in west german government positions in the decades after the war than active nazi party members in the state during the actual time of nazi germany?
They mention it off-handedly at one point, but they're certainly not given equal time.