The US sympathized with them even after all of it, pardoned and rehabilitated many of them, allowed them to join the army and politics because “tankies bad”. The modern german state is the direct inheritor of that, and its starting to behave like their grandpas, inciting coups abroad (probably involved in Bolivia’s coup for instance) and def involved in the Belarus situation.
The Morales move on Nov. 4 to cancel the December 2018 agreement with Germany’s ACI Systems Alemania (ACISA) came after weeks of protests from residents of the Potosí area. The region has 50% to 70% of the world’s lithium reserves in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats.
https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-court-hands-dw-reporter-10-day-prison-sentence/a-54485033
They will also get extremely mad if you point that out lol.
Honestly the East didn’t go far enough either, the urge to keep the mid level officials around was too great from a practical perspective (the Stasi working to fund Neo-nazis was also not the best take ever), but at least there was some real attempt to purge society from Nazi influence.
