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The president of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, in particular, was denounced during the official commemorations of the liberation of the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen held at the GDR's National Memorials. [63] However, in reality substantial numbers of former Nazis rose to senior levels in East Germany.
The issue of Waffen-SS veterans in West German society came to a head when West Germany rearmed and formed the Bundeswehr in 1955. The initial intention was not to admit any former Waffen-SS men, but this was soon changed to allow former members up to the rank of Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel). [7]
West Germany [a] is the common ... As a result, many people with a former Nazi past ended up again in the political apparatus of West Germany. [27] Between 1951 and ...
The organization employed hundreds of former members of the Nazi Party and former Wehrmacht military intelligence officers. [4] After West Germany regained its sovereignty, Gehlen became the founding president of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany (1956–68).
Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and NATO. He joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier.
Walter Bartram, a CDU member and former Nazi, was made minister president, the first former Nazi to lead a state government in West Germany, while Kraft was made deputy minister president. [7] In 1950, the BHE received 14.7% and 12.3% in the Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian elections respectively.
The Naumann Circle (German: Naumann-Kreis), also sometimes referred to as the Gauleiter Circle or the Naumann Affair, was an organization of former German adherents of the Nazi Party that was formed in the German Federal Republic (West Germany) several years after the end of the Second World War.
Braunbuch – Kriegs- und Nazi-verbrecher in der Bundesrepublik: Staat – Wirtschaft – Verwaltung – Armee – Justiz – Wissenschaft (English title: Brown Book – War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic: State, Economy, Administration, Army, Justice, Science) is a book edited by Albert Norden in 1965.