In the case of senior police or government officials who were palpably guilty of serving Nazi interests via the puppet regimes that employed them, this defence was at best disingenuous.

I long to see the sunlight in your hair / And tell you time and time again how much I care

the customary part of the ceremony in which the monarch was presented before the people in his regalia for popular acclaim was removed altogether for fear that it be interpreted as incipient contractualism.

No Roman-Empress ever did out-shine, / A Lady Majoress when she would be fine.