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To that end, as the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts, the [[Psychological Warfare Division]] (PWD) of [[SHAEF]] (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) undertook a psychological [[propaganda]] [[Political campaign|campaign]] for the purpose of developing a German sense of collective responsibility.<ref name="janowitz1946">[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2770938 Janowitz, 1946]</ref> The Public Relations and Information Services Control Group of the British Element of the Allied Control Commission began in 1945 to issue directives to officers in charge of producing newspapers and radio broadcasts for the German population to emphasize "the moral responsibility of all Germans for Nazi crimes."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=FiyHJ8MiR1gC&pg=PA262&dq=collective+responsibility+german&sig=NHnIn8bNfr_WYo4F_AZ2Gea0cc0#PPA263,M1 Balfour, pg 263]</ref> Similarly, among U.S. authorities, such a sense of collective guilt was "considered a prerequisite to any long-term education of the German people."<ref name="janowitz1946" />
English writer [[James Stern]] recounted an example in a German town soon after the German surrender.
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[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118695683/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 URL]</ref>
Il [[20 luglio]] 1945 - il primo anniversario del [[complotto del 20 luglio|fallito attentato a Hitler]] - non fu fatta menzione dell'evento, perché ricordare al popolo tedesco che c'era stata un'attiva [[resistenza tedesca|resistenza a Hitler in Germania]] avrebbe minato gli sforzi degli alleati di creare un senso si colpa collettivo nella popolazione tedesca.On July 20, 1945 — the first anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler — no mention what-so ever was made of the event. This was because reminding the German population of the fact that there had been active German resistance to Hitler would undermine the Allied efforts to instill a sense of collective guilt in the German populace.<ref>Michael R. Beschloss, ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941–1945'' ISBN 0-7432-4454-0 p.258 "At a moment when they were trying to establish a sense of collective guilt for Hitler's horrors, they did not wish to confuse the issue by reminding the world that some Germans had risked their lives, however belatedly and for whatever reasons, to stop the Fuhrer."</ref> (see also [[German resistance]])
Immediately upon the liberation of the concentration camps many German civilians were forced to see the conditions in the camps, bury rotting corpses and exhume mass-graves.<ref name="marcuse_p128">[http://books.google.com/books?id=WOD9ncsixssC&pg=RA2-PA427&dq=vansittartist&sig=9VDocDT8Lu1S9ij9RXl-DgH9gZw#PRA1-PA128,M1 Marcuse, pg 128]</ref> On threat of death or withdrawal of food, civilians were also forced to provide their belongings to former concentration camp inmates.<ref name="marcuse_p128" />
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==Today==
The late admission of famous German writer [[Günter Grass]], perceived by many as a protagonist of 'the nation's moral conscience', that he had been a member of the [[Waffen SS]] reminded the German public that, even more than sixty years after the [[Third Reich]] had ended, membership in Nazi organisations is still a taboo issue in public discourse. Statistically it is highly likely that there are many more Germans of Grass' generation (also called the "[[Flakhelfer]]-Generation") with biographies not unlike his, who have never found cause to reveal their wartime record in the context of total ideological blackout.<ref>[http://www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/artikel.php?id=1&kat=91&artikelid=3504 Karen Margolis: ''Who wasn't a Nazi?'']</ref>
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