Questioning the Past: The Fragebogen and Everyday Denazification in Occupied Germany
Journal: Open MIND
Year: 2016

This dissertation examines the infamous denazification questionnaires – Fragebögen – that were distributed by the four Allied occupying powers in Germany following the Second World War and designed to identify Nazi party members and sympathizers. These self-administered surveys, alongside the Nuremberg Trials, were the public face of denazification, but in reality the Fragebogen process dwarfed all other activities in scale, expense, and impact. The questionnaires determined what employment oppo