Editing Denazification (section)

==In other countries==
{{See also|Fascist (insult)}}
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In practice, denazification was not limited to Germany and Austria. In several European countries with a vigorous Nazi or fascist party, measures of denazification were carried out. In France the process was called [[épuration légale]] (''legal cleansing''). [[Prisoners of war]] held in [[Detention (imprisonment)|detention]] in Allied countries were also subject to denazification qualifications before being returned to their countries of origin.

Denazification was also practiced in many countries which came under German occupation, including Belgium, Norway, Greece and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], because [[Satellite state|satellite regimes]] had been established in these countries with the support of local collaborators.

In Greece, for instance, [[Pursuit of Nazi collaborators#Greece|Special Courts of Collaborators]] were created after 1945 to try former collaborators. The three Greek "[[quisling]]" prime ministers were convicted and [[capital punishment|sentenced to death]] or [[life imprisonment]]. Other Greek collaborators after German withdrawal underwent repression and public humiliation, besides being tried (mostly on treason charges). In the context of the emerging [[Greek Civil War]], however, most wartime figures from the civil service, the [[Greek Gendarmerie]] and the notorious [[Security Battalions]] were quickly integrated into the strongly anti-Communist postwar establishment.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}

An attempt to ban the [[swastika]] across the EU in early 2005 failed after objections from the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] and others. In early 2007, while Germany held the European Union presidency, Berlin proposed that the European Union should follow German Criminal Law and criminalize the [[Holocaust denial|denial of the Holocaust]] and the display of Nazi symbols including the swastika, which is based on the Ban on the Symbols of Unconstitutional Organizations Act ([[Strafgesetzbuch section 86a]]). This led to an opposition campaign by Hindu groups across Europe against a ban on the swastika. They pointed out that the swastika has been around for 5,000 years as a symbol of peace.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hindus opposing EU swastika ban |date=2007-01-17 |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6269627.stm |access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hindus Against Proposed EU Swastika Ban |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |date=2007-01-17 |location= Hamburg, Germany |agency=Reuters |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,460259,00.html |access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref> The proposal to ban the swastika was dropped by the German government from the proposed [[Fundamental Rights Agency|European Union wide anti-racism laws]] on January 29, 2007.<ref name="EthanMcNern_2011">{{cite news |title=Swastika ban left out of EU's racism law |work=The Scotsman |date=January 30, 2007 |location=Edinburgh |author-first=Ethan |author-last=McNern |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Swastika-ban-left-out-of.3342365.jp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805064029/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Swastika-ban-left-out-of.3342365.jp |archive-date=August 5, 2011}}</ref>