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From Crusade to Hazard: The Denazification of Bremen Germany
relates how the American and British combat forces and military
government officers occupied, administered, and denazified Bremen
and its environs from 1945 to 1947. The three distinct phases in
administering Bremen had a profound impact on the denazification of
the city. Denazification legislation was first determined by the
Americans, then by the British, and then again by the Americans.
Throughout, denazification teams tried to find a middle way between
the American dictum of a radical purge of the whole population and
the less ambitious British goal of only cleansing the
administration. This delicate balancing act led to an
implementation of a purge that was unique to the Bremen enclave.
While it succeeded in discovering and punishing many of the main
functionaries of the Nazi regime, it also fell victim to its own
ambition and collapsed underneath the weight of its administrative
processes. As deadlines and waning governmental support forced a
quick end to the program, the bloated denazification bureaucracy
resorted to classifying most of the remaining cases as benign
'followers, ' even when they hardly deserved that label. At a time
when interest in de-politicizing old classes of administrators
affiliated with dictatorial regimes is being increasingly fueled by
contemporary world events, this book is a particularly valuable
contribution.
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