Crossword clues for denazification
Wiktionary
n. The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.
WordNet
n. social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism; "denazification was a slow process" [syn: de-Nazification]
Wikipedia
Denazification was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of the National Socialist ideology ( Nazism). It was carried out specifically by removing from positions of power and influence those who had been Nazi Party members and by disbanding or rendering impotent the organizations associated with Nazism. The program of denazification was launched after the end of the Second World War and was solidified by the Potsdam Agreement.
The term denazification was first coined as a legal term in 1943 in the Pentagon, intended to be applied in a narrow sense with reference to the post-war German legal system. Soon afterward, it took on the more general meaning.
Very soon after the program started, due to the emergence of the Cold War, the western powers and the United States in particular began to lose interest in the program, and it was carried out in an increasingly lenient and lukewarm way until being officially abolished in 1951. The American government soon came to view the program as ineffective and counterproductive. Additionally, the program was hugely unpopular in Germany and was opposed by the new West German government.
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.