Kraut_and_Tea
patreon
Would you be interested in "Denazification"
🕑 Added 2021-11-30 13:16:23 +0000 UTCThis came up as a private conversational topic yesterday. "Denazification" is thew process by which Nazi leaders were prosecuted after WW2, but also describes the cultural process of self reflection and critically examining our national history as Germans from 1964 to 1999. Such a video would be a lot more "academic" and information packed, and as a topic considerably more heavy.
However if we want to discuss the process of historical self-reflection in the future, like about countries like Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, USA, and many others, it may be useful to have a baseline understanding and reference point.
What do you think?
Comments
Maybe if it's a proper reflection. From my Dutch perspective Germany just tries to push away the extreme right from public debate by having criminalized a lot of elements. This suppression ignores a lot of latent opinions on the debate of immigration within Germany.
Yes
Sounds good to me
AJ
I would be an interesting case study in a larger video about how societies change and the process of reconcile the present with the evils of the past. How can we reconcile 'who we were' with 'who we are' and make mindful decisions with regard to 'who we want to become'.
This is an incredibly interesting topic, I'd love to see a video about this.
Profpatsch
yes please, as a German I’m always surprised how many people outside of Germany don’t know about that.
12345
you should compare it to De-Ba'athification
Ist ein Idiot der aus dem Müll kroch
I think a simple yes should suffice ;)
Chris Wreker
There is a great video on about Germans after World War II and the effects it has by Armchair Historian, you should check it out. Here is a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrDtRvkGyjY
Chris Wreker
De-Nazification good in theory and in practice but doesn't always try to translate with other countries, not sure if Japan had its own De-Militarization or De-Nationalist moment but there Japan doesn't seem to share the reflective values that Germany has probably due to culture in Asia and how they view shame, same can be said for Turkey and Italy. There was also the fact the U.S. tried to repeat methods of De-Nazification in Germany and pacification of Japan but with Iraq with De-Baathifaction after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party, with very little results and made things worse.
Please! I think this is one of the most interesting topics to approach in these times... Historical revisionism, romantization of nations and the like really need a reality check (and a facts based one in particular!!). And from my own experience West Germany has done the best job of this (not perfect, but what is...?), so I would love to see the process in more detail.
Great idea, but please make sure to investigate the differences of Denazification in West Germany, East Germany, and Austria and investigate why the alt-right has more popular support in former GDR states.
