Kurt Georg Kiesinger
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Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-Preside
Kiesinger in 1969
1961 election poster for Kiesinger
First reading of the Bonn–Paris conventions in the Bundestag, 1954
Left to right: Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Kiesinger and Willy Brandt in 1967
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
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
…Kiesinger was released and moved to Scheinfeld, where his parents-in-law resided, and where his wife and children had already moved. There, he underwent denazification. He was initially categorised into Category IV (Followers, Mitläufer in German) because he had been a member of the Nazi Party. In 1948, he was…
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