The situation with nazis in Germany wasn’t that simple all over, as I recall on both sides of the iron curtain a lot of nazis still worked for government, sometimes very high up.
This is absolutely true. For example: in the East people with ambitions would get Party recommendations from high-profile members to ‘prove’ they were never Nazis. This obviously has problems and it wasn’t hard to game the system unless one was famously a Nazi.
The situation with nazis in Germany wasn’t that simple all over, as I recall on both sides of the iron curtain a lot of nazis still worked for government, sometimes very high up.
This is absolutely true. For example: in the East people with ambitions would get Party recommendations from high-profile members to ‘prove’ they were never Nazis. This obviously has problems and it wasn’t hard to game the system unless one was famously a Nazi.