German collective guilt
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German collective guilt refers to the contentious notion of a shared, collective responsibility attributed to the German people as a whole for the perpetration of the Holocaust and other atrocities co
"These atrocities: Your fault!" – a poster showing the concentration camps to the German populace. The text accuses Germans as a whole of doing nothing while atrocities were committed.
Denazification
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Denazification was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by
German collective guilt
…to bring the Germans to recognize this guilt." After the war, the Allied occupation forces in Allied-occupied Germany promoted shame and guilt with a publicity campaign, which included posters depicting Nazi concentration camps with slogans such as "These Atrocities: Your Fault!" (Diese Schandtaten: Eure Schuld!). The…
Workers removing the signage from a former "Adolf Hitler-Straße" (today "Bahnhofstraße") in Trier, May 12, 1945
A 1948 denazification clearance certificate from Wattenscheid in the British Zone
Eagle above the rear main entry to the Robert-Piloty building, department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology. Note the effaced Swastika under the eagle.
East German propaganda poster in 1957