S2 • E1 Jan 4, 2021 52m
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On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered. Its leaders had to be punished, its symbols and schemes eradicated once and for all. The Nuremberg trials, which attracted a great deal of attention from the media, raised hopes that Germany would be liberated from the devastated ideology. But this attempt soon proved to be wishful thinking: the Allies quickly realized that the denazification of millions of Germans close to the NSDAP was an unattainable goal, which helped the German population, who had partially covered for the Nazi criminals, to some degree of rehabilitation.
