They were also called the GDR. There were hundreds of thousands of ex-NSDAP members in positions of responsibility in the GDR.
Of course you can negotiate with Nazis. That's what the USSR and Western Allies did after WWII. No reason you couldn't do it in principle with the Taliban.
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> From: wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] There is nothing called the 'moderate Taliban'
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 11:04 PM
> Weren't they called the Federal
> German Republic after 1945? (Okay, this
> may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the West German
> Republic wound up
> being fairly dependent on functionaries that had party
> membership,
> frequently because they were the ones with the training to
> do the work.)
> robert wood
>