How did Germany stop being Nazis after the end of WWII? Did everyone just “snap out of it” after Hitler’s death?
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Read up on Dreher’s Law… Aside from everything else that’s been commented on, much of the postwar law hindered and buried a lot of the past because Nazi judges and lawyers, themselves not held directly responsible for war crimes, had architected the law and continued to serve in the German legal system.
So it took a very long time to hold these people to account and purge these remnants, to prevent them from continuing to influence German society.
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