Denazification operation
also: denazification program, denazification effort
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U.S. Denazification Policy Board recommended
Denazification documented
“The publicly mandated denazification program sharply collided with the unofficial but actual political and economic objectives of the U.S. occupation government. That month, the U.S. Denazification Policy Board confidentially recommended th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 45:21
U.S. State Department sabotaged
Denazification documented
“that was made on the War Crimes Commission. They sabotaged Mr. Pell, who had been sent over to London. They basically took his funding away. They did literally everything they could to sabotage not just the investigations into who had commi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 17:55
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and not the people that they're attacking. Psychological operations. The Good Shepherd further distorted history by making it seem like the agency supported denazification when it recruited the Nazis for the Cold War. It also was depicting …
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The speed of official denazification thus far had been achieved by identifying categories of suspects like Nazi party leaders, government officials, and so on. Contrary to later myths about denazification, these categories were usually rela…
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Critics could see that this technique often captured small fries while permitting major criminals to escape. Not surprisingly, those who had been the most powerful in wartime Germany usually had the most resources to escape this method. Bus…
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fails in practice to reach a substantial number of persons who supported and assisted the Nazis, both in their rise to power and in carrying out their programs. That was a quote from the denazification policy board. They went on to say, quo…
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Owners of businesses that played a major role in the regime often escaped responsibility, the board concluded. Meanwhile, U.S. occupation governments' reliance on conventional bureaucratic techniques tended to catch many so-called little Na…
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Even when the account was blocked, as required by law, German banks simply ignored the order. They're still being run by the same people. Further, the shortage of U.S. investigation people allowed the bureaucracy to continue. The program gu…
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The publicly mandated denazification program sharply collided with the unofficial but actual political and economic objectives of the U.S. occupation government. That month, the U.S. Denazification Policy Board confidentially recommended th…
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However, every person who exercised leadership in the power and support of the Nazi regime should be, that was the official policy, deprived of influence. Whether or not he was formally affiliated with the party. But at the same time, the b…
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Denazification should not be carried so far as to prevent the building of a stable democratic society in Germany. We must avoid the creation of a huge mass of outcasts who will provide fertile soil for agitators and a source of social insta…
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It wasn't actually that they thought that it was going to be political instability. It's just that they wanted to maintain control. This turned an important corner. Up to then, the continuation of Nazi influence within German social structu…
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and it basically allowed the denazification effort to stop. Opposition within the US to denazification and ending cartels in Germany was led almost exclusively by the corporate and foreign policy elite who had financially benefited from it …
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because they owned the media, to influence government policy and eventually to shift public opinion was dramatically manifested in a realignment of U.S. policy concerning denazification and getting rid of cartels between 1945 and 1947. One …
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In more than five pages of Brown's detailed acknowledgments of those that he interviewed, there appears no speaker on behalf of German labor, no small businessmen of any nationality, none of the well-known figures advocating actual denazifi…
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There were no Social Democrats and no known veterans of the resistance movement. Brown's argument was simple in some ways and convincing. He said that the Morgenthau plan that had shaped the Joint Chiefs of Staff memo and basically Potsdam …
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The post-war punishment of Nazis by France and the Soviet Union had been indiscriminate and brutal. The U.S. and British system of trying the accused criminals before courts was better, he argued. Many of the industrial and technical leader…
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pending the years required to go through denazification courts. The Potsdam Agreement had deprived the economic machine of Germany of the very leadership that they supposedly needed. Brown said he expected no support for his proposals, but …
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From your more elaborate reading of it, was anyone honest in the entire denazification program? Well, the people like Morgenthau knew exactly what was going on, but they basically pushed him aside. Pell knew exactly what was going on, but t…
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that was made on the War Crimes Commission. They sabotaged Mr. Pell, who had been sent over to London. They basically took his funding away. They did literally everything they could to sabotage not just the investigations into who had commi…
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So this is the international syndicate. This is the vultures that swoop in on the dead body. Like Brown's book, Reid's report to Harriman lamb blasted the denazification and cartel policy the U.S. had approved at Potsdam because, you know, …