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>Only the Soviets did a serious background check about the past of their German apparatshiks
Dude, what. The gdr didnt give two fucks about it unless it became absolutely obvious that this person was very personally involved and ordered atrocities. They had almost no court cases about ww2 stuff, many officers and party members just stayed in office after the gdr was founded, they just had to swear an oath or bullshit like that