Allies refused to work with the surviving resistance on the suspicion that antifascist groups harbored communists and fellow travelers. For instance, when it entered the already-liberated city of Wuppertal, the US army disbanded the antifascist municipal council and police. The military government “didn’t want any ‘bolsheviks’ thinking they could take over now that the Nazis had been kicked out.”79 The Allied position infuriated the German left. Olick writes, “the German Left … argued strongly that Allied re-education programs blocked an indigenous German reckoning with the Nazi past.”
