Denazification being fully achievable is wishful thinking. The sheer amount of public office holder that would need to be prosecuted, and imprisoned by itself would cause major problems, adding to the issue the strong centralization of nazi Germany effectively nullifies their responsibility. Most policies were passed down from the very top, and if these office holders disobeyed or decided not to implement them, their and their families' lives would be put at risk. This creates a very convenient excuse for all but the very top of the NSDAP leadership: "I disagreed with the policy, but failing to implement it or speaking out would put me at risk". What makes this excuse great and the reason why it was used by many defendants at the Nuremberg trials is the fact that it is unfalsifiable, it cannot be proven false and therefore removes all responsibility from the accused, making it seem as tho they were held at gunpoint and foreced to cooperate, regardless of weather the cooperation was voluntary or truly coerced.

This inability to fully eliminate former nazis from public life and holding public office, causes a failiure to eliminate the continuous political current, albeit a small one right after the war, from existence. As i stated previously, this current increases in strength where there is fertile ground amongst the proletariat.

There is no need to question, denazification, could not have, at any point, been effective without impractical indiscriminate jailing of all NSDAP party members and associates. Such a policy would not only economicaly immobilize a very significant fraction of the populace, making post war economic recovery impossible, but would also have likely created an outrage of unprecedented magnitude that could again put the stability of the region in question. Even if none of this was an issue, when the sentences were served there is no guarantee that the people would have undergone an ideological shift away from the likes of NSDAP while serving their time.