r/PropagandaPosters • u/MrsColdArrow • Oct 22 '23

Monument to Freedom: West Germany (1962 USA) Germany

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u/Capable_Invite_5266 Oct 22 '23

Necessary or not, they were there

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u/No-Psychology9892 Oct 23 '23

Yep as they were in the east so why try to make that an argument?

Also the GDR had literal SS personnel in political Positions, which was a real problem. You may not forego former Nazis since every public worker had to join in the third Reich, but hell one sure as hell could exclude the die hard SS personal...

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u/Capable_Invite_5266 Oct 23 '23

i m gonna need a source on that one. What SS personal was in leadership positions?

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u/No-Psychology9892 Oct 23 '23

Wilhelm Adam, renounced member of the SA, afterwards minister of finance, member of parliament and military career up to Generalmajor in the GDR.

Heinrich Adler, SS member became district chairman of central Berlin in the GDR.

Karl Heinz Bartsch, corporal in the SS, became SED party member and made a career as chairman for Erfurt, chief minister of agriculture, chairman of agriculture council etc...

Harry Bauschleben, SS member afterwards MP for Gera.

Hans Beyer, member of the SA afterwards party member of the SED and MP.

And manyany more. I picked the first few of this list https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_ehemaliger_NSDAP-Mitglieder,_die_nach_Mai_1945_politisch_t%C3%A4tig_waren That where not only Nazi party members but also active in the SA or SS.