Germany was never denazified so there were always nazis in politics, army, police, secret agencies and all other parts of government which heavily influenced their way of thinking and decision making in the crucial early parts of democractic development. The Bundeswehr with their old Wehrmacht officers even had plans to coup the government straight after its founding.
Britain, France and US quickly realised that if they locked up the guilty, there would be no-one left to use as cannon fodder if the Soviets got frisky.
It was more “we won’t have anyone to run the arms of government/teach/administer various agencies, and we don’t want to import talent from our nations to fill the gap while we find and train people as administrators etc”.
They should have just dissolved Germany. A country that started one world war, was mainly responsible for another one to start and also committed two genocides has no right to exist.
Germany was never denazified so there were always nazis in politics, army, police, secret agencies and all other parts of government which heavily influenced their way of thinking and decision making in the crucial early parts of democractic development. The Bundeswehr with their old Wehrmacht officers even had plans to coup the government straight after its founding.
Britain, France and US quickly realised that if they locked up the guilty, there would be no-one left to use as cannon fodder if the Soviets got frisky.
It was more “we won’t have anyone to run the arms of government/teach/administer various agencies, and we don’t want to import talent from our nations to fill the gap while we find and train people as administrators etc”.
But… we do need more builders, so let’s get a bunch of Turks to come do it
You’re not wrong. Many German generals were retained to advise NATO during the 1950s and 1960s because of their experience with the Soviets.
They should have just dissolved Germany. A country that started one world war, was mainly responsible for another one to start and also committed two genocides has no right to exist.
Splitting Germany up doesn’t solve the lack of denazification. And it’s not like Germany is any worse than most other european countries nowadays.
With a past like that, that’s not enough.
Sure. How would splitting up Germany have changed the outcome?
There wouldn’t have been a government, police and army full of old nazis which is already enough.
If you split the same population into more countries, you get more desperate for staff, not less.
Yeah there’d be like 8, one of which was a major European power before Germany was founded.
I mean, they did that too.