Don't kid yourself. Postwar Germany and Austria were run mostly by Nazis. When %10 of your pop is in it - including the majority of people with important skills including doctors and civil engineers - and you need to rebuild post haste for the Cold War you can't go full Pol Pot and murder off all the people who knew things. In fact a lot of post war Europe had Nazi collaborators sitting in judgement as judges over other collaborators. Source: Post War by Tony Judt.
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Don't kid yourself. Postwar Germany and Austria were run mostly by Nazis. When %10 of your pop is in it - including the majority of people with important skills including doctors and civil engineers - and you need to rebuild post haste for the Cold War you can't go full Pol Pot and murder off all the people who knew things. In fact a lot of post war Europe had Nazi collaborators sitting in judgement as judges over other collaborators. Source: Post War by Tony Judt.
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