Executions
Recently, I took my family around the Tower of London and there is a rather chilling tableau of the executiuon of a German spy during WWII, containing the diary of the CSM who organised the squad and set up the point of execution in the miniature range, in accordance with an order issued by the GOC. He makes it clear that the APM had to produce the Death Sentence and Execution Order and confirm that it was 'right and proper' before the firing party could go about their business.
With respect to separating the term 'German' from 'Nazi', much of this was an immediate post-war re-engineering. At the end of the war there was a tremendous purge of party officials and even low-level Gemeinde arbeiter had to undergo detailed scrutiny by the Allied Powers. When Russia (re)emerged as a threat, the US took the lead under then-General Eisenhower to both demonising the 'bad' SS (and Waffen SS) and the mythologising of the 'good' German Army, eventually paving the way for establishment of the Bundeswehr a few years later, officered by some characters with some rather dubious service histories. The scandal of files destroyed in recent years by the German BMD underlies this.
Occupation accounts from both official and private sources make it quite clear that the vast, vast majority of the German peoples were either Nazi party members or sympathisers. The US CIC reports until c 1949 do show frequent concerns about Fascist recidivisim. Certainly there were resistance groups but they were small and fragmented. The so-call von Stauffenberg Plot (actually devised by Generalleutenant Fellgiebel) was, at best, hair-brained, and was more concerned about Hitler's meddling in the conduct of the war, rather than his philosophy, per se.
Germans are our friends, and quite rightly so. The 3 post-war generations have been educated over and over again about 'that dark period of history' (as they might refer to it) but it is seen both embarrasing and irrelevent compared with the remarkable sucess of (west) Germany over the last 70 years. Although there may have been complicity at very high levels to rehabilitate former Nazi nomenklatura in nthe 50s - 70s, that is now history.