Denazification?

 Up until yesterday, I had never heard the expression 'denazification'.

Meaning?  Someone in the Pentagon....around 1943 and in the stages of planning Germany after the war concluded....coined this expression.  In German, it's Entnazifizierung.

It's basically this idea that German/Austrian cultures need to dissolve away into a non-Nazi existence.  This also included the politics, the legal system, the news media, and the economy.

In simple terms, you were pure of anything Nazi-like....after the cleansing.

How this effort went with the French, Americans and British following WW II?   Well...most people will say that for about six years....following the war....it went on for the most part.  If you asked the non-Germans....by mid-1950s....denazification was pretty much standard policy around Germans, and they were left in charge of their own denazification program from that point on.

So Putin brings up that part of his overall strategy is to denazify the Ukraine?  Well, yeah.....he did bring that up yesterday.

If you brought this concept back up within the Pentagon or in intellectual circles of London/Paris?  People would mostly laugh at you, and suggest you are living in some 1950s glass-bubble...inviting trouble.

Putin's logic?  He's in some belief that WW II ended yesterday, and there's some Nazi-lifestyle still existing (particularly in the Ukraine).  This leading back to an inner-circle who hype the Nazi-chatter and how you can protect the glorious homeland?  More or less.

Trying to explain this....in some logical manner?  The first thing people would ask....how would you recognize Nazi-lifestyles, or Nazi-social stuff in 2022?  Some might go and ask if destalinization or deleninization, or even deputinization needs to occur.  

Confusing?  To the ninth degree.