How Germany DeNazified

On May 8, 1945, the German armed forces signed their unconditional surrender to the Allied powers. WWII, at least in Europe, was over. And now that the guns had fallen silent, the US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union had to face a daunting conundrum: how to deal with the active members of the National Socialist Party, the SS, the Wehrmacht and other organisations who had committed some rather extreme war crimes and crimes against humanity? On top of that, how to rid the fabric of the fallen III Recih’s society from the pernicious influence of an extremist ideology so many had bought into? Afterall, in some respects with those who had bought into the ideology wholly, it would have been like going back to the 1700s American South and trying to convince a mass group of slave owners to completely, and almost immediately, rethink their ideas on slavery and those of African descent in the nation. A seemingly impossible task. And then beyond ideological shifts, Just from a practical standpoint, how to speed up economic recovery for the nation and ensure nothing like this would happen again in the country and provide a strong buffer between the Soviets and the rest of Europe.

So, how was all of this accomplished? And how did they do it so fast? And just how successful was all of this in reality?

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