Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
5-2020
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Jonathan Petropoulos
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Abstract
This study investigates Nazi continuity within the postwar West German government (FRG) and far-Right parties. Chapter 1 reviews what happened to German Nazis after the war and explores the role of Cold War tensions in limiting justice efforts. Chapter 2 considers Chancellor Adenauer’s amnesty laws in the FRG: how they appeased the far-Right at a great moral cost. Chapter 3 is a case study of former Nazi State Secretary of the Propaganda Ministry Dr. Werner Naumann, represented as the cost of Adenauer’s amnesties. Naumann infiltrated the Federal Republic’s democratic political parties in an attempt to revive National Socialism in the early years of West Germany. Chapter 4 explores the failure of the organized far-Right and the trajectory of the West German far-Right into the 1960s.
Recommended Citation
Morris, Harrison, "Arrested Recovery: Nazi Continuity and Infiltration in the Postwar Federal Republic of Germany" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2380.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2380
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
