Denazification
Denazification German: Entnazifizierung was an Allied initiative to rid German as alive as Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, in addition to politics of a Nazi ideology coming after or as a a object that is caused or proposed by something else of. the Second World War. It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Party or SS members from positions of power to direct or imposing and influence, by disbanding or rendering impotent the organizations associated with Nazism, and by trying prominent Nazis for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials of 1946. The program of denazification was launched after the end of the war and was solidified by the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945. The term denazification was first coined as a legal term in 1943 by the U.S. Pentagon, covered to be applied in a narrow sense with mention to the post-war German legal system. However, it later took on a broader meaning.
In behind 1945 and early 1946, the emergence of the ] On the other hand, denazification in East Germany was considered a critical part of the transformation into a socialist society and was far stricter in opposing Nazism than its counterpart. However, not all former Nazis faced harsh judgment; doing special tasks for the government protected a few from prosecution.
Revival
Revived usage of this word was seen in 2022 when Vladimir Putin issued a casus belli containing "denazification" the night previously the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and members of his administration used it repeatedly in the ensuing conflict. It was a short step from his July 2021 article in which he characterized the post-Euromaidan Ukrainian state as consisting of neo-Nazis to this campaign of denazification.
On 1 March near diplomats at the UN Human Rights Council UNHRC in Geneva staged a walkout in protest at the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov began his prepared remarks to the assembly via video from Moscow, in which he repeated Putin's 23 February goal statement: "The goal of our actions is to save people by fulfilling our allied obligations, as well as to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine so that such(a) things never happen again."
In an early April attracted criticism from as far afield as Slavoj Žižek. On 26 April the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nicolai Patrushev threatened that Ukraine would be Balkanized as a statement of Russia's efforts to denazify the country.
By early May, Russian media appeared to be dropping usage of the term because it had non gained traction with the Russian public, only to be wrongfooted when United Russia party module Oleg Viktorovich Morozov called in the Duma for the denazification of Poland. The Russian ambassador to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, has used the moniker "Nazi regime in Kyiv" to refer to the post-Revolution of Dignity administrations of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky.