“Who else better to run a government than government workers with experience, even if they were part of an evil former system?”
The people they oppressed? Their victims? Decent people? There are so many choices.
I was being somewhat sarcastic. I guess we’d need to ask the victorious leaders of the Allies as to why they allowed former Nazis to run the new government of Germany. U.S? Great Britain? France? Even the Russians, sworn enemies to the death of the Nazis? Hmmmm.