Denazification

Start with Allied approaches

Begin with Allies Denazify Germany, a mind map that separates the Soviet and Western zones and looks at successes and changes in society and business. Use its branches to organize your first notes on the different approaches.

Then open De-Nazification, a note on Western Allied policies that includes the Nuremberg trials. The note gives you another way to study material introduced in the maps.

Examine policies and their aims

The slide set Denazification Policies of Western Allies, 1945-1949 looks at what the Western Allies wanted to achieve. The slide set De-nazification also covers the aim of changing political outlook and cultural ideas.

As you work through them, record the aims separately from the outcomes. You can return to the mind maps to see how their branches present successes and questions about the Nazi legacy.

Use maps and flashcards together

The page also lists mind maps that ask how far the Nazi legacy was eradicated and how far the problems of denazification were solved in West Germany. Their questions give you a way to organize evidence rather than treating each resource as an isolated set of facts.

Follow a map with De-Nazification in the 1950s, which poses questions about war criminals and former Party members. Reactions to the De-Nazification Policies offers flashcards on responses such as acceptance, indignation and avoidance. There are no quizzes listed on this page, so the flashcards offer another way to check your recall.

Connect your study

Denazification is one section of the Post-War Germany unit in History. The resources here offer different starting points within that section: Allied policies, reactions to them and questions about their longer-term effects. Comparing a note or slide set with a map can help you organize those perspectives.

Choose a resource that matches the question you are studying, and use its headings or prompts to build your own notes.