MARK FELTON: Erasing Hitler — How The Allies Cleansed Germany of Nazism (Video).

Felton notes that in West Germany, “It would take until the 1960s and 70s for attitudes to change as the old Nazis retired and a new generation of Germans unconnected with the crimes of the National Socialist period came to power and influence.”

That transition would be delayed for quite a bit longer in East Germany, however.