Laz, for what it is worth, my wife remains on very cordial terms with her old German professor, who spends her winters in Orange County, California, and spends summer and early fall in Germany.
She's commented in her letters to the US on the effort being made over the past few years to whitewash, justify, and explain away Nazism in Germany. There is a lot of winking and nodding going on.
No proof, just a hunch.
You ain't the only one with a "hunch."
So this justifies a full-scale invasion, and conversion to an American state, of this once-sovereign nation.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.