From an American perspective we don't really learn much about this from schools. All we do end up learning is that after the Reich fell we had 2 different Germany's getting influenced by the west or Russia. The actual perspective from the Germans is very much unexplained but I find it hard to believe that people in East and West Germany were just fine with the new influence and forgot all the propaganda being fed to them by the Third Reich. Considering how nationalistic Germany was and that people generally tend to dislike foreign powers occupying their country I feel that there definitely was resistance present.
Hi there, I'm going into a Modern German history MA program, I majored in German as an undergrad, and I worked at a number of sites pertaining to the NS in Nuremberg.
When it came to establishing and justifying their presence, the allies did indeed come up against some resistance from the German populace; though very little, if any of it, was armed with the intent of overthrowing the allies or affecting any meaningful change. It's important to remember that the extent of the NS regime's atrocities was unknown to the public at large. Many of the people who were aware of a forced labor camp or an extermination camp in their area generally thought that the atrocities were confined just to their location or simply willfully chose to ignore it.
Thus, when the Nuremberg trials thrust the sheer brutality and inhumanity of the regime into the light, there were many who thought that the charges were greatly exaggerated and/ or made up (tangentially: this, along with an early documentary about the Holocaust laden with factual inaccuracies laid the groundwork for modern Holocaust denial). However, as the trails ran their course, and more of the NS leadership provided their testimonies, public sentiment began to turn against the former regime to some extent.
In the US occupation zone, there was also a program of "de-nazification" that sought to integrate former low and mid-level party members into a democratic society as long as they were not directly implicated in any war crimes. While the program had spurious results at best, a number of German nationalists in the West began advocating for a sort of pan-European nationalism to mask their still latent German nationalism. Alfred Low did a very good job of outlining the exact developments of German right-wing thought post-war in his book The Third Reich and the Holocaust in German Historiography.
In the East, on the other hand, Soviet justice was a fair bit harsher than the Western counterparts, and many people, both former-members and not, simply immigrated to the West knowing that they would not be extradited back to the East. Of course, the closest way to the West for many Germans was in the Western occupied parts of Berlin. The problem became so acute that in 1961, the Soviet Union built the Berlin wall to try and stop the flood of immigration.