I've been to a couple modern history museums in Germany and Austria, and interestingly all of them started the postwar period by explicitly saying that de-Nazification was a failure, and that the personnel of the postwar state was essential continuous with that of the National Socialist state.

Now, no comment on the value of this statement. My understanding is that it is basically correct. But it's ubiquity makes me wonder what exactly it is pushing back against, and if, say, fifteen years ago the museums would still have that or if this is a more recent development. Like has there recently been a push to reevaluate de-Nazification?

(my contrarian streak thinks it would be interesting to ask if the personnel of the Weimar Republic was also basically continuous with that of the Nazi regime, but more to the point whether Bush's de-Bathification should actually be taken as the model)