Israel was seen as inspiring militarist power, which Germany should emulate. Over a thousand West Germans asked the Israeli embassy if they could become Israeli soldiers, including the writer Günter Grass, previously of the Waffen-SS. The speaker of the “Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members” (HIAG), Karl Cerff, discovered his comrades in Israel. He found the Israelis “amazing” and stated positively how “the Kibbutz are similar to the [Reich] labor service.” One SS veteran donated 1,500 Marks to the Israeli embassy to prove that “not all SS members were criminals.”
The media joined in the chorus too, with the Israeli foreign minister thanking the German “press, radio and television to have in each phase of the conflict . . . sided with us.” Der Spiegel talked of “Israel’s Blitzkrieg,” enthusiastically describing Israel soldiers as “winning like Rommel.” The Rheinische Post discovered in Moshe Dayan “the student” of Erwin Rommel, as in their view Israeli victories strengthened German self-consciousness. Berliner Zeitung talked of Israel’s “total victory.”
The right-wing media was even more enthusiastic: for Die Welt, Israel’s offensive was a “cleansing thunder,” whose success should inspire West Germany to resort to military confrontations in East Germany too. It “disproved the fashionable thesis that war may not be a ‘means of politics’ anymore. No one may learn more from Israel’s behavior than Germany.” Bild surpassed all others, discovering the Federal Republic’s own “Arabs” who must be conquered: East Germans, Poles, and Czechs. Der Spiegel would print a reader’s letter from South Africa from no other than “Congo Müller,” a Wehrmacht veteran who would become an infamous mercenary and responsible for multiple war crimes in the central African country. He praised Israel’s existence and described the threat of Israeli encirclement by the Soviet-backed Arab states to be the “number-one world threat” for the “free world.”
The idea that the western powers tried any sort of denazification post-1945 is laughable. The French were the closest and it was mainly based on "vengance" and using ss soldiers to help defend their colonial possessions in french indochina. A requirement for denazification was the liquidation of german bourgeoisie, but that would mean essentially letting the KPD govern the country.