Nazism, Nato and West-European Integration – Correlation

After the Second World War, too many high-ranked Nazi-German officials were saved from deserved punishment and incorporated into post-war German society, and even into the process of West-European integration. That process was at first military, as NATO was founded before the European Coal and Steel Community. So, political issues were predominant. The reasons for such an approach were primarily connected with the ideological struggle between two main blocks, led by USA and USSR, but political and economic ties between two just ended war enemies, namely the Anglo-American leading circles and Nazis, had also been deeper than expected.