Denazification both did and didn't go well: many Nazis slipped through the cracks, were quietly let back into the fold or even more or less openly embraced (operation paperclip / south America). However, from the mid-sixties onwards a Nazi-past was pretty much a kiss of death in the public eye (though that was 20 years too late).
Denazification both did and didn't go well: many Nazis slipped through the cracks, were quietly let back into the fold or even more or less openly embraced (operation paperclip / south America). However, from the mid-sixties onwards a Nazi-past was pretty much a kiss of death in the public eye (though that was 20 years too late).