Very soon after the program started, due to the emergence of the Cold War, the western powers and the United States in particular began to lose interest in the program, somewhat mirroring the Reverse Course in American-occupied Japan. Denazification was carried out in an increasingly lenient and lukewarm way until being officially abolished in 1951. The American government soon came to view the program as ineffective and counterproductive. Additionally, the program was highly unpopular in West Germany, where many Nazis maintained positions of power. Denazification was opposed by the new West German government of Konrad Adenauer, who declared that ending the process was necessary for West German rearmament.
So this often comes up and there’s a lot of opinions. I often reference the Nuremberg Trials as an example of how a society expresses the consequences of not changing behavior and ideology. You know, if the failure of their war, and the craven suicide of their fuhrer hadn’t already.
But, probably the best example is Pu-Yi and how the CCP handled the Chinese emperor that collaborated with the Japanese.
In short: education and work. Teach them the right way and make them work a job that satisfies the material conditions of a common citizen.
Your suggestion sounds dangerously close to “work will set you free”
It’s about what happened with leadership of fascist imperialist movements. Do you know about Puyi? (Or Nuremberg?)
But if you want to build that connection though, of all things, that’d be your effort. That’s on you.