While I don’t know how accurate this statement is, I do wonder how you would go about doing it now, so far after the war.
Where would you even start?
What criteria would you use to determine the nazi index of every person, what index value would be the threashhold, who would decide on who is nazi and who is nice.
It would be very easy just take people who use to be in the party and kick them out like they should have at the get-go. Not that it matters because they have very little animus to do so.
No, the NSDAP is forbidden in Germany.
There is the NPD which was under consideration to be forbidden, but in the court case it came out the German national secret service had so many rats in it you could even figure out who was an actual nazi and who was a poser.
There is the AfD that in the mayority is simply a populistic anti-migration party, but some members are pretty close to nazi ideology.
An interesting statement about a word that was only created to describe what the Allies tried to achieve in Austria and Germany.
Ok, the Allies handed it over to the Germans in '46 and obviously it was met with a lot of resentment. I mean think about it. The Nazi party had 8,5 million members in '46 with 79 million Germans in '39.
For a lot of these poeple they only had the membership to get their job. No surprise that as government of a starving population and the next conflict just unfolding infront of your door you set other priorities.
I’m still glad that the protests in '68 forced the goverment, courts and universities to another cleanup.
And don’t forget Germany never underwent denazification
While I don’t know how accurate this statement is, I do wonder how you would go about doing it now, so far after the war.
Where would you even start?
What criteria would you use to determine the nazi index of every person, what index value would be the threashhold, who would decide on who is nazi and who is nice.
It would be very easy just take people who use to be in the party and kick them out like they should have at the get-go. Not that it matters because they have very little animus to do so.
Do the Nazi party still exist in germany?
No, the NSDAP is forbidden in Germany. There is the NPD which was under consideration to be forbidden, but in the court case it came out the German national secret service had so many rats in it you could even figure out who was an actual nazi and who was a poser.
There is the AfD that in the mayority is simply a populistic anti-migration party, but some members are pretty close to nazi ideology.
Just a quick update: The NPD no longer exists under that name, they renamed themselves to “Die Heimat” in June of last year.
Right, I forgot about that already. Too bad. I liked them more when they still sounded like a mental disorder.
An interesting statement about a word that was only created to describe what the Allies tried to achieve in Austria and Germany.
Ok, the Allies handed it over to the Germans in '46 and obviously it was met with a lot of resentment. I mean think about it. The Nazi party had 8,5 million members in '46 with 79 million Germans in '39. For a lot of these poeple they only had the membership to get their job. No surprise that as government of a starving population and the next conflict just unfolding infront of your door you set other priorities.
I’m still glad that the protests in '68 forced the goverment, courts and universities to another cleanup.