Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DENAZIFICATION

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Definitions of DENAZIFICATION

1. The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.

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Examples of Using DENAZIFICATION in a Sentence

• The program of denazification was launched after the end of the war and was solidified by the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945.
• Following World War II, he was interned by the British in 1946 and classified as "exonerated" in 1951 after undergoing denazification.
• The Allied powers originally pursued a common German policy, focused on denazification and demilitarization in preparation for the restoration of a democratic German nation-state.
• Similar processes in other countries and on other occasions included denazification in Allied-occupied Germany and decommunization in post-communist states.
• During the denazification process, his statements helped to exonerate acting colleagues, including Göring’s widow, Emmy, and Veit Harlan, director of the film Jud Süß.
• Izac was one of a group of 12 Congressmen and Senators sent to the European Theater of Operations, where they toured Buchenwald, Nordhausen and Dachau concentration camps, learning of the conditions directly from a number of the survivors, an experience that deeply impacted Izac and led to his belief that "terroristic and fanatical" members of the Nazi Party should be "eliminated" rather than reintegrated as part of denazification.
• In 1945, he was sentenced by a Denazification court in Offenburg to a fine of 1000 Reichsmark for his anti-Semitic writings which the court ruled helped provide the intellectual basis for the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.
• His films and videos include Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Condor: A Film from California, The Form of the Good, Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, The Spear of Destiny, Suprematist Kapital, and The Denazification of MH about Martin Heidegger, which is analyzed in the journal Film-Philosophy.
• In the years following World War II, the Allied occupational authorities in Germany implemented policies which included demilitarisation, denazification, democratisation and decentralisation.
• Meixner received a denazification certificate (Persilschein) with the help of his PhD advisor Sommerfeld, one of the few German scientists untainted with Nazi affiliation, who wrote that Meixner had never been a supporter of the Nazi system but in his circumstances it would have been very difficult for him to avoid joining the SA.
• After World War II, Benda gave evidence during Furtwängler's denazification proceedings, avowing that Furtwängler had protected Jews from official persecution.
• Decommunization has been compared to denazification in post-World War II Europe, and the de-Ba'athification in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.
• The whole of Ukrainian society is dominated by neo-Nazis and ultranationalists who persecuted ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers; this stereotype was used by the Russian government to justify invading Ukraine in 2022, with the claimed goal of "demilitarisation" and "denazification".
• In December 2023, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia's goals of "demilitarization" and "denazification" in Ukraine were similar to Israel's stated goals of defeating Hamas and extremism in Gaza.
• His father had been a lieutenant in the German Army and a Nazi Party member, who fled to Chile in December 1950 during the denazification of Germany and settled in Buin, a commune within the Maipo Department in Santiago Province (current Santiago Metropolitan Region).
• In May 1945, Buchner had been removed from his position at BSGS, and he would have to go through the denazification process if he wished to work again as a civil servant in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Resulting from the Potsdam Conference in July to August 1945, they comprise: demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation.
• The logic is simple: the events in Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel plus the purpose of the so-called "special operation", "denazification" = the crime of genocide.
• At the second forum, the topics for discussion included the deimperialization, decolonization, de-Putinization, denazification, demilitarization, and denuclearization of Russia.
• Initially accused of wrong-doing by the Commissione di epurazione in 1945, an official anti-Italian Facisct commission equivalent to the denazification tribunals in Germany following the Second World War, he was eventually cleared of all charges in 1948.

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