Western Germany did pay a bit of reparations but undoubtedly not nearly close to even resemble the damage it had done. Eastern Germany was paying quite extensively to the Sovjet Union, albeit all the machines and resources they could take from there also would not amount to anything close of what the Germans did in the Sovjet Union.
The Nuremberg trials only made a few prominent cases but left a lot of people off the hook. A lot of the “middle management” of the Nazi regime made a career in Western Germany politics, industry, courts, security apparatus and military. Infamously there is still places named after the SS Officer Hans Martin Schleyer who was tasked with the “arrisation” of the czech economy and later became the president of the German employer organization and the German industrial organization, two of the most powerful corporate lobby groups. Instead of tossing this SS scumbag to the historical gutter, he is celebrated as a martyr in the fight against communism because he was killed by the RAF terrorist Organization in 1977.
Western Germany did pay a bit of reparations but undoubtedly not nearly close to even resemble the damage it had done. Eastern Germany was paying quite extensively to the Sovjet Union, albeit all the machines and resources they could take from there also would not amount to anything close of what the Germans did in the Sovjet Union.
The Nuremberg trials only made a few prominent cases but left a lot of people off the hook. A lot of the “middle management” of the Nazi regime made a career in Western Germany politics, industry, courts, security apparatus and military. Infamously there is still places named after the SS Officer Hans Martin Schleyer who was tasked with the “arrisation” of the czech economy and later became the president of the German employer organization and the German industrial organization, two of the most powerful corporate lobby groups. Instead of tossing this SS scumbag to the historical gutter, he is celebrated as a martyr in the fight against communism because he was killed by the RAF terrorist Organization in 1977.