That denazification should have occurred in spite of a widespread refusal to engage with the past, and that both German states were cleansed of Nazism in spite of the large-scale return of Nazi elites to their old posts, is a much greater wonder than the so-called economic miracle. Almost as unsettling as the scale on which Germany became a global nightmare is the somnambulistic certainty with which it went on to regain its respectability.
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