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In reply to the discussion: "Hitler Grandma" Picture Gets Context [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)powergirl
She could have had parents who was a tiny bit involved in the former regime, after all in 1946 it was just a year after the end of the war - and right up to the end of the war, had Hitler an iron clad support by many germans - including in Berlin, who other vice was rather "un-friendly" to the nazi-ideology even after 12 years of the nazi-rule.. It is a reason Hitler wanted to tear down Berlin, and rebuild it as Germanica after the war... And it was not just because he wanted to make an expression of himself to the future....
Many germans was never "denazifized" in the general term of the world - or was just deemed to have been "follower but not a criminal" and therefore just kept off the hook easy enough.... Even if their harbored nazi-ideology for the rest of their lifer's - and many of them, emigrated later on to other parts of the world - including USA, who in the aftermath of the war, had some soul-searching to work on - as many who had german decent in USA, had been more than just a little sympathetic for the nazi cause...
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