Racism and discrimination are pervasive in Germany. Xenophobic and derogatory views remain rampant. To coincide with the International Day Against Racism, new studies have been presented.
This thread inspired me to create a post about it on the YouShouldKnow community, but I’ll quote a section of the Wikipedia article about denazification here:
Very soon after the program started, due to the emergence of the Cold War, the western powers and the United States in particular began to lose interest in the program, somewhat mirroring the Reverse Course in American-occupied Japan.
Denazification was carried out in an increasingly lenient and lukewarm way until being officially abolished in 1951. The American government soon came to view the program as ineffective and counterproductive. Additionally, the program was highly unpopular in West Germany, where many Nazis maintained positions of power.
Denazification was a formal effort. It was never the spectacular purge people imagine it to have been, nor was it ever meant as such.
This thread inspired me to create a post about it on the YouShouldKnow community, but I’ll quote a section of the Wikipedia article about denazification here: