Ex-Nazis
As in not Nazis
Uh, when you have a totalitarian police state, and if you were to work for that government, the odds were the vast majority were members of the nazi party. I suspect the same is for Putin’s crew when they were part of the the old Soviet Union. Wbo else better to run a government than government workers with experience, even if they were part of an evil former system? Welcome to the way the world works under socialism/communism. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Was Merkel part of this?
After WWII, Germany was a county of ex Nazis. Is this some kind of guilt trip being laid on Germany?
I would think in a pragmatic sense that after the war in Germany it would have been awfully hard to find anyone who was an adult who was not a Nazi Party member to work the government. No, party membership was not compulsory, but it certainly would have kept them out of your business if you were. Sort of like the Communist Party in Russia was not compulsory, but strongly recommended.
I don’t find this story remarkable unless they had a high party official with blood on his hands and uniform working there, and the article does not say that.
After the original de-Nazificiation frenzy of 1945-47, pragmatists realized that management needed to be handed over to competent leadership.
Patton understood earlier than most (before he was liquidated).
“It is no more possible for a man to be a civil servant in Germany and not have paid lip service to the Nazi’s than it is for a man to be a postmaster in America and not have paid at least lip service to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party when they are in power.”
“I had never heard that we fought to “de-Nazify” Germany. Live and learn. What we are doing is to utterly destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe so that Russians can swallow the whole.”
“It is my belief that when the catchword “De-Nazification” has worn itself out and when people see that it is merely a form of stimulating Bolshevism, there will be a flop of the pendulum in the opposite direction.”
“The point which I was and am still trying to bring out is that in Germany practically all or at least a very large percentage of the trades people, small businessmen, and even professional men such as doctors and lawyers were beholden to the Nazi party. Without the patronage of the Nazi party, they could not carry on their business and work at their professions. Therefore, many of them were forced to give lip service to the party. I would extend this to mean that any dues paying by them was nothing but a form of blackmail and a means of holding onto their jobs. If we kick out these people, we will retard the reorganization of Bavaria to the extent that we will certainly be guilty of the deaths by starvation and freezing, of many women, children, and old men this winter.”
” I stated that if we took all of the small Nazi’s out of every job, chaos would result, and it did. “
Nazis were evil. They infected many decent things around the world in the post war era.
Yeah, so? All civil servants in Germany were required to be Nazi party members under Hitler. Patton got in trouble for keeping ex-Party members in their jobs, but who was going to replace them. One of my college professors was a kid in 1945 Germany. He said the Americans appointed a random concentration camp inmate as mayor of his town. The guy turned out to be a wife-murderer who set himself up in a mansion with a bunch of whores. But, hey, at least he (probably) wasn’t a Nazi, right?
Well heck we had a Nazi for UN Secretary General.
Look at Europe now: Had Germany’s side won would they have opened the floodgates to the Middle-East now...?
There would have been no crushing yoke of multi-culti war-guilt, and I don’t know how many 100’s of times people start yakking about the Mufti (I know all about him, and it’s true).
What we’re seeing now is an INVASION and none of it was brought on by people on the right.
How many civil servants in the Bush Administration were Democrats?
Well Duh. Anyone who knew how to do anything in Germany post WWII was an ex Nazi. During the early 1930s and 1940s, if you weren't a Nazi, you were an enemy. Germans who weren't Nazis were pariahs, ergo everyone joined the Nazi party because they had to.
But our leaders after world war II had enough good sense to just prosecute the worst ones while telling the rest that if they hadn't done anything horrible, and if they kept their nose clean from there on out, they would be left alone.
It was the exact same method that SHOULD have been used in Iraq, but Nooooooo... Idiot super geniuses decided they knew better than WWII leadership.
Of course, Idiot Super Geniuses always make a horrible muck of things.
I wonder if this is part of the German governments attempts to paint anyone who disagrees with the muslim invasion as a Nazi.
Old “news.”
Makes more sense now who started importing all those Muzzies into Europe after WWII to re-build it.
Don’t care about 60 years ago. I’d like to start seeing Communists who ran the Gulag persecuted just like the Nazi’s were. I’d like to see communists who are lusting after power over us persecuted the same way. I am focused on defeating today’s enemies.