When it came time for judgment at Nuremberg, the Americans and other non-Germans who had supported the Reich politically and economically were not brought to account, and the US influence on Nazi decision-making was inadmissible at the court proceedings. This is a key mechanism by which denazification left Nazism itself intact. To put Nazism—as opposed to individual Nazis—on trial would have revealed that it was not just a German project but also an American one and indeed a global one; a complex of the nation-state and big business, working toward the aims inherent in themselves.
