Editing Denazification (section)

==Brown book==
{{Main|Braunbuch}}
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''Braunbuch – Kriegs- und Naziverbrecher in der Bundesrepublik: Staat – Wirtschaft – Verwaltung – Armee – Justiz – Wissenschaft'' (English title: ''Brown Book – War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic: State, Economy, Administration, Army, Justice, Science'') is a book written by [[Albert Norden]] in 1965. In this book, Norden detailed 1,800 Nazis who maintained high-ranking positions in postwar [[West Germany]].<ref>{{Cite book| last = Norden | first = Albert | title = Braunbuch.Kriegs-und Naziverbrecher in der Bundesrepublik | publisher = Staatsverlag der DDR | year = 1965 | url = https://archive.org/details/brownbook1965}}</ref>

Altogether 1,800 West German persons and their past were covered: especially 15 [[Minister (government)|Ministers]] and state secretaries, 100 admirals and generals, 828 judges or state lawyers and high law officers, 245 officials of the [[Foreign Office]] and of embassies and consulates in leading position, 297 high police officers and officers of the [[Verfassungsschutz]]. The first brown book was seized in West Germany – on [[Frankfurt Book Fair]] – by judicial resolution.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Ditfurth | first = Jutta | title = Ulrike Meinhof: Die Biography | publisher = Ullstein | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-3-550-08728-8 }} pp. 274–275 (Greek version)</ref>

The contents of this book received substantial attention in West Germany and other countries. The West German government stated, at that time, that it was "all falsification".<ref>Dieter Schenk, ''Auf dem rechten Auge blind. Die braunen Wurzeln des BKA'' (Kiepenheuer & Witsck, Köln 2001)</ref> Later on, however, it became clear that the data of the book were largely correct. [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]], for example, really had been a member of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]. The book was translated into 10 languages.  Amongst the reactions to it was also a similar West German book of the same name, covering the topic of Nazis re-emerging in high-level positions in the GDR.<ref>Olaf Kappelt: Braunbuch DDR. Nazis in der DDR. Reichmann Verlag, Berlin (West) 1981. {{ISBN|3-923137-00-1}}</ref>

In addition to the ''Braunbuch'' the educational booklet ''Das ganze System ist braun'' (''The whole system is brown'') was published in the GDR.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tillack-Graf |first=Anne-Kathleen |title=Erinnerungspolitik der DDR. Dargestellt an der Berichterstattung der Tageszeitung "Neues Deutschland" über die Nationalen Mahn- und Gedenkstätten Buchenwald, Ravensbrück und Sachsenhausen. |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-631-63678-7 |location=Frankfurt am Main |pages=48}}</ref>