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In the Netherlands, there are several institutional remnants of the German occupation that remained to this day: Arbeidsbureaus (Labour offices) helped unemployed return to work. However, this apparently was introduced as institutional framework to ship Dutch people to the factories at the Ruhr. The Nazis also introduced universal healthcare in the Netherlands - based on the Krankenkasse system - which existed in its original form 1941 to 2006.
However, this is just the Dutch experience: In Germany, many sentences of the Nuremberg trials were commuted and Nazis who avoided the spotlights occasionally got away, serving posts in the Post-War German government. West-Germany would later consider itself the legal successor state of the Nazi Germany. In France, Nazi collaborators such as Maurice Papon served official functions.
Finally, the timezone in Western Europe was synchronized to that of Germany.
How deep do these institutional leftovers from Nazi-party rule run? Both in Germany and the formerly occupied territories? What kind of influence would these facts have on post-war events such as, say, the French riots of 1968? Are right-wing populists of the likes of Wilders and Le Pen perhaps attenuated forms of Nazism, the result from subtle Nazi influence on culture on government in Western Europe?
However, this is just the Dutch experience: In Germany, many sentences of the Nuremberg trials were commuted and Nazis who avoided the spotlights occasionally got away, serving posts in the Post-War German government. West-Germany would later consider itself the legal successor state of the Nazi Germany. In France, Nazi collaborators such as Maurice Papon served official functions.
Finally, the timezone in Western Europe was synchronized to that of Germany.
How deep do these institutional leftovers from Nazi-party rule run? Both in Germany and the formerly occupied territories? What kind of influence would these facts have on post-war events such as, say, the French riots of 1968? Are right-wing populists of the likes of Wilders and Le Pen perhaps attenuated forms of Nazism, the result from subtle Nazi influence on culture on government in Western Europe?