Nazis After the War
After invading Iraq, the Americans fired all individuals at the top of most institutions (army, police, bureaucracy). Why? Because, by definition, the top guys would have appointed by and thus supportive of Saddam’s policies. The results were disastrous since now there was nobody with “work experience” available to take the top jobs of governance and providing security. But when Nazi Germany fell, nobody did any such cleansing. Sure, the very top Nazis were prosecuted (if captured). But the majority of the next rung weren’t. William Boyd writes in his summary of Danny Orbach’s book, Fugitives : “Most – it stands to reason – quietly blended back in to postwar German society. It is estimated that at the end of the conflict in 1945 the Nazi party had around 8.5 million members. Only a tiny percentage were hunted down and prosecuted. What happened to the millions of others?” These Nazis had no good choices, esp. if they were ideologically inclined. Join the hated West (whom ...