denazification

Feigel sets out to prove that these processes of denazification, re-education, and reconstruction of post-World War Two Germany by an international group of artists ultimately affected those artists, filmmakers, writers, and actors more so than they did Germany, or the German public, by implicitly questioning the lines between the political, the creative and the personal.

inconsistent with the denazification principles of the Potsdam Protocol.

I did not give up until, immediately after the end of the war I was finally able to look into the files of the university authorities, the command posts of the occupying powers and the denazification offices.

From the position of an occupying power, which originally pursued strict policies of control and "denazification" under the Potsdam agreement of August 1945, it became an essential senior partner in the context of the Cold War.

This process could also be read as a history of Americanization, particularly in the case of West Germany, where the Western allies attempted--as part of their denazification policy--to instill discussion as a technique of democratic culture.

As the defeat and occupation of Germany was punitive in nature, the Allies implemented the complete demilitarization and denazification of Germany.

The concluding chapter, "Denazification," contains some practical suggestions for how to turn things around.

It gave local self-government units a year to adopt the urban space to the requirements of the Act, in other words, to remove elements that promote the totalitarian system (in the Polish case, of course, communist, because denazification was carried out extremely scrupulously in 1945) (33).