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greedo | 14 hours ago

West Germany wasn't denazified. The process was started after the surrender, but quickly and quietly stopped.

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ant6n|9 hours ago

The party was forbidden, the symbols were forbidden. They hung the main leaders, quite publicly. It became a huge taboo, the ideology effectively died (for decades). A strong democracy was established, older democratic parties took over.

Yes a bunch of previous nazis made it back into power and politics, but they didn't call themselves nazis or acted like nazis. But also, the country as a whole took a very different path after wwii.