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.
"Don't be stupid, be a smarty...come and join the Nazi Party."
The number of ex-members of Hitler’s personal militia, the SA, was also surprisingly high, the report found, reaching a peak of 45 percent in 1961. …I am thinking of the saying “past is prologue” here.
It is our inflexible purpose to destroy German militarism and Nazism and to ensure that Germany will never again be able to disturb the peace of the world. We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff that has repeatedly contrived the resurgence of German militarism, remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control all German industry the that could be used for military production; bring all war criminals to just and swift punishment and exact reparation in kind for the destruction wrought by the Germans; wipe out the Nazi Party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions, remove all Nazi and militarist influences from public office and from the cultural and economic life of the German people; and take in harmony such other measures in Germany as may be necessary to the future peace and safety of the world. It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany, but only when Nazism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans, and a place for them in the comity of nations.The word “extirpated” has only one meaning.