Far right in Germany

Following the fall of Nazi Germany and the dissolution of the Nazi Party in 1945, the far right in Germanyquickly re-organized itself in a Neo-Nazi movement

The Deutsche Rechtspartei was founded in 1946, succeeded by the Deutsche Reichspartei in 1950. The Socialist Reich Party was founded in 1949. The German Social Union (West Germany) was another 1950s Neo-Nazi foundation.

The Free German Workers' Party was founded in 1979 and outlawed in 1995. The Nationalist Front was active during the 1980s. The Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit was outlawed in 1982.The National Offensive existed 1990-1992.The German People's Union was founded in 1987, the German Alternative in 1989, the German League for People and Homeland in 1991

The currently most successful movement is the National Democratic Party of Germany, notably winning 9.2% in the 2004 state election in Saxony, and winning 1.6% of the nation-wide vote in the 2005 federal elections. In the 2006 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, the NPD received 7.3% of the vote and thus achieved state representation there, as well. [ BBC News update [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5349696.stm] ] The NPD had 5,300 registered party members in 2004. [Spiegel [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,323122,00.html] ] Over the course of 2006, the NPD processed roughly 1,000 party applications to put the membership total at 7,000. The DVU has 8,500 members. [IRNA [http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0701119316160127.htm] ]

The total number of potentially right extremist individuals in Germany was estimated to 31,000 as of 2007, of which an estimated 10,000 were classified as potentially violent ("gewaltbereit"). [Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2007.]

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ee also

*Neo-Nazism in Germany