verb
- removed Nazi ideology, influence, or personnel from (a country, institution, or organization)
Usage: past tense and past participle of denazify; historical
Examples
- After World War II, the Allied forces denazified Germany by removing Nazi officials from government positions.
- The university was denazified through a comprehensive review of its faculty and curriculum.
- Many institutions needed to be denazified before they could function in the new democratic society.
- The process of having denazified the media took several years to complete.
- Schools were denazified by replacing textbooks and retraining teachers.
- The factory was denazified when its Nazi-affiliated management was dismissed.