I've talked to several former Allied military officers, (most of whom are now deceased) who said that there was little discrimination, in terms of retaining security officials for domestic security after the war.
Not just celebrity Nazis, repurposed to fight against Moscow. However, I've never systematically studied the issue myself.
Best, Joel
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> joel schalit wrote:
>
>> I appreciate this, Angelus. The cross-membership of security forces
> officials and extremist organizations has been a huge problem,
> forever, it seems. Could you explain a bit about > the Allies retaining
> of Nazi officers in the security apparatus after the war?
>
>
> Hi Joel, sorry to create any confusion, I didn't write this, I was merely forwarding a link. I don't know a lot about the history of this, but if you contact MRZine they could probably put you in touch with Victor Grossman, who wrote the article.
>
> Victor is a great guy, and his autobiography "Crossing the River" is fantastic, one of the most fair and honest assessments of the GDR I've ever encountered.
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