- Far right in Germany
Following the fall of
Nazi Germany and the dissolution of theNazi Party in1945 , thefar right inGermany quickly re-organized itself in aNeo-Nazi movementThe
Deutsche Rechtspartei was founded in 1946, succeeded by theDeutsche Reichspartei in 1950. TheSocialist Reich Party was founded in 1949. TheGerman Social Union (West Germany) was another 1950s Neo-Nazi foundation.The
Free German Workers' Party was founded in 1979 and outlawed in 1995. TheNationalist Front was active during the 1980s. TheVolkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit was outlawed in 1982.TheNational Offensive existed 1990-1992.TheGerman People's Union was founded in 1987, theGerman Alternative in 1989, theGerman League for People and Homeland in 1991The currently most successful movement is the
National Democratic Party of Germany , notably winning 9.2% in the 2004 state election inSaxony , 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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Neo-Nazism in Germany
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