Definition of "denazification" []

• The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II. (noun)

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• "I would say there are paralells between the so called denazification and what went on in afghanistan as in neither really took place. there were show trials of a few senior figures followed by the victors hiring most of the rest to help them run the country the same could be said of Iraq."
• "The relatively narrow scope of the Nuremberg trial and the "denazification" proceedings that followed in Germany allowed thousands of Nazis back into society."
• "I could quote sources that account for the Dresden Holocaust right after it happened, including the * Stars and Stripes, * before the Allied Ministries of Truth started to forge, censor and eliminate the documents that would convict them of war crimes and started to weave their tapestry of lies and psychological terror from 'denazification' to holocaust denial 'that continues to this day."