Were there still organized German Nazi groups right after the end of WWII?

by yanni99

The Germans were into the Nazi line of thoughts for a long time, there must have been people who believed that it was still the best way and tried to do something about it.

TL_DRead_it

Could you get a bit more specific? Do you mean organised resistance agains allied occupation, political parties, 'self-help groups'...?

While there were some semi-serious plans for guerrilla-style resistance they never amounted to much.

The only political party that can be seen as more or less a less a successor party to the NSDAP is the Socialist Reich Party or SRP which was founded in 1949 and subsequently found unconstitutional and outlawed by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

While there still is an extreme right-wing party in Germany today whose members are (rightfully) seen as Neo-Nazis it is both widely unsuccessful and has no direct connection to the NSDAP.

As for organised groups directly after WWII...they existed but had much less the restoration of Nazi rule and more the self-preservation of their members in mind. So called ['Rattenlinien'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_aftermath) helped a lot of former Nazi officials escape, especially to Latin American countries.

^(Sorry for the Wiki-Spam, I'm on the road and don't have any actual sources at my disposal.)

dave_g17

To piggyback on this question, could I ask if there was any armed resistance to the Allied occupation?