Denazification | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification


00:02:10 1 Overview
00:07:19 2 Application
00:07:28 2.1 American zone
00:17:54 2.1.1 Censorship
00:22:16 2.2 Soviet zone
00:26:11 2.3 British zone
00:28:47 2.4 French zone
00:30:26 2.5 Germany in the 21st century
00:32:10 3 Brown book
00:34:03 4 Implications
00:34:12 4.1 For future German states
00:34:51 4.2 For the future of Europe
00:35:23 5 Responsibility and collective guilt
00:40:38 6 Surveys
00:49:02 7 End
00:50:58 8 Hiding one's Nazi past
00:52:38 9 In other countries
00:55:08 10 Decommunization



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Denazification (German: Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the National Socialist ideology (Nazism). It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Party or SS members  from positions of power and influence 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 in August 1945.
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.In late 1945 and early 1946, the emergence of the Cold War, the economic importance of Germany and a lack of Allied manpower to run the denazification effort caused the western powers and the United States in particular to lose interest in the program. The British relaxed restrictions on former Nazi Party members in October 1945 and April 1946 and handed denazification panels over to the Germans in January 1946. The Americans relinquished control of the judicial denazification of individuals in March 1946 and turned responsibility over to civilian tribunals under German administration. The French ran the mildest denazification effort. Denazification 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 of Konrad Adenauer.