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I don't know where they were hiding in the 90s/00s.
But ultimately the path tode nazifying Germany couldn't occur until approx 5 million german combatants had been killed ong with the mass destruction of german industry.
So to correct course over decades I would expect something like Germanies treatment post 1945 to be reuqired.
The anology for the english speaking west in the era of state and corporate collusion to supress dissent would be something like the following.
Scale for population (include women too, as no longer limited to physical combat by men). This gives 20-40 million from the USA, 4-8 million in the UK, 2-5 in each of Canada and Australia, and that one guy in New zealand. These people don't have to be killed but they can't continue to participate in government, politics, ecience, education, etc. No voting, no participation in markets if any kind, no bank accounts, no healthcare, no property ownership, no internet access allowed, etc. They would need to be outlawed.
The destruction of the industries that they previously captured, which would be something along the lines of handicap the wests industry, science, and government and give China thrle 21st century. Sillicon valley gets deleted. No more google, etc. Servers get the c4 treatment en masse.
Prohibition of their sacred symbols and policy positions moving forward, so that's no more of any of the various shibboleths that I won't name here but you'll know what they are or might be I expect.
Mass propoganda and education campaigns to prevent their ideology/religion from being thought of well ever again.
Finally, their leader get the Nuremburg treatment and get trials which result in hanging or other death penalties if found guilty.
Then the decade long process of fixing things can begin.
Of course none of this is remotely realistic or even truely desirable given the sheer scale of it and sexond, third, etc order effects, the consequences to such damage to external force capabilities regarding e.g., Chinese or even Russian threats. I am merely demonstrating that the process of restoring trust in a tolerant non totalitarian system requires the removal of the old as well as credible demonstration that it isn't going to be reasserted next Tuesday.
Thank you for reading my peculiar thought experiment haha.
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