Germany’s post-war history is often told as a story of democratic redemption: defeat in 1945, division into two states, reunification in 1990, and the emergence of a stable European power.
Yet beneath that reassuring narrative lies a more uncomfortable inheritance. The far right did not suddenly appear in modern Germany. It survived, adapted and, after reunification, found new political terrain in which to grow.
The collapse of East Germany was supposed to settle one historical argument. Stalinism had failed, and liberal democracy had triumphed. But political identities rarely disappear as neatly as regimes do. In the former East, decades of authoritarian socialism had produced alienation from institutions, resentment towards distant elites and a profound distrust of political language. The ideology changed; some of the emotional architecture remained. The enemy was no longer the capitalist West or the communist class enemy. Increasingly, it became the migrant, the foreigner, the European bureaucrat and the cosmopolitan liberal.
How Unification, Conservatism and the Far-Right Reshaped Germany
“Germany did not inherit the far right from its past; it inherited the shadows of its past and then gave them new political clothes.”
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