Page "Denazification" Paragraph 7

A report of the Institute on Re-education of the Axis Countries in June 1945 recommended: " Only an inflexible long-term occupation authority will be able to lead the Germans to a fundamental revision of their recent political philosophy.

" Every adult had to fill out a form detailing his or her past.

On 15 January 1946, however, a report of the Military Government ( classified as restricted ) stated: " The present procedure fails in practice to reach a substantial number of persons who supported or assisted the Nazis.

" Therefore, on 1 April, a special law transferred the responsibility for the denazification process to the German administration which established 545 civilian courts () to oversee 900, 000 cases.