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At the end of WW II, Goering was happy to not have been executed by the SS at Hitler's orders or the Russians, and expected to be treated as an honorable POW by the American forces, then to be released resume his life after the war.

Imagine his surprise when the Allies arrested him for War Crimes. Even then, he was hoping that he could turn the Nuremburg trials into the same farce Hitler did 20 years before that after the Munich Putsch. He was wanting to turn the trial into a forum for justifying Naziism to the rest of Germany and that the German people would sympathize with him.

However, he didn't realize how badly the German people loathed what Hitler and his cabal did to them. One example: Some American soldier was playing the Donald Duck "Heil! Heil! in the fuhrer's face" on a record....and the German workers around him were laughing just as hard at it as he was. A prosecuting attorney who saw that knew right then and there, that Germany wouldn't revive National Socialism.

Say what you will about Doucheland today, but West Germany was a stalwart ally for us for the 45 year Cold War.