Social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism

Usage examples of denazification.

All three later drew stiff prison sentences from German denazification courts though, in the end, they served very little time.

World War II, Wall Street moved into Germany through the Control Council to protect their old cartel friends and limit the extent to which the denazification fervor would damage old business relationships.

General Lucius Clay, the deputy military governor for Germany, appointed businessmen who opposed denazification to positions of control over the denazification proceeds.

Extracts from the Morgenthau diary demonstrate that Wall Street political power was sufficient even to control the appointment of officers responsible for the denazification and eventual government of post-war Germany.

The Americans made him a judge at minor denazification trials in a provincial town.

NSDAP membership records, which makes it easy to find out when people lie on their denazification questionnaires.

During the war he had some minor intelligence role, and afterwards worked as a denazification officer.

These beastly denazification tribunals, while every real criminal escaped judgment.

A certified copy, anyway, and the findings of the Denazification Court.

Some Nazis will surely slip through the great sieve and they are going to be the real screamers who demand justice, denazification, and democracy.