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Let's get this out of the way. I am not asking if it was possible for the Nazis to rise again in post-war Germany. The Allies were very thorough in their denazification process, making sure to tear out the roots of anything related to the Nazis. (Of course, the US gave prominent Nazis of strategic value false identities under Operation Paperclip, but that's another matter). The fact that there was no major upriisng against Allied rule, aside from a few attacks from the Werewolves, puts that question to bed.

What I mean is, is it plausible for another charismatic firebrand agitator in the same vein as Hitler (Raging about Germany's defeat in the war, promising a new, stornger Germany, raging against the Allied occupation and later partition of Germany, etc) to rise during the Cold War in West Germany (I'm pretty sure the Soviets would stamp out any such figure in East Germany) and if it is, is it plausuble for said firebrand to achieve some kind of political power in West Germany?
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