What if Neo-Nazis took over East Germany in 1953?

danielb1

The Soviets would send in overwhelming military force and brutally crush the too-soon-to-be-properly-"Neo" Nazi uprising, and unlike in OTL Hungary 1956 or Czechoslovakia 1968, NATO would be cheering them on and would even join in if the Nazis also tried anything in West Berlin or West Germany proper.

Never mind the Soviet leadership's reaction, I don't think President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill, or President Auriol are going to have much tolerance for a literal Nazi regime in Germany. It's only been 8 years since World War II. Can't imagine Prime Minister Ben-Gurion would be happy either.
 
Yankeewolf

Yankeewolf

Any and all allegations of fascism would be dismissed as Soviet Propaganda. If the Soviets respond even more brutally than they did in OTL to the threat of East Germany wriggling out from underneath them, they would cause another wave of refugees and hostility from the west. West Germany would shift to the right given the larger population of refugees and Ostpolitik would be dead in the water. Expect claims beyond the Oder-Neisse to continue on beyond Reunification in this case. Even if there was a core of fanatically Anti-Soviet leaders, it would be presented in the west(and America) as the failures of the Soviet System being so stark that the Germans were rejecting it outright, comparing West Germany now undergoing economic recovery with the East in turmoil.
 

Seandineen

What would onkel Konrad do during all this? I imagine that the FRG would activly want to prove its democratic credibility by fighting with the civilsed world against Nazi tyranny.
 

Quintuplicate

RanulfC said:
The "Neo-Nazi" movement had about as much to do with actual "Nazi's" as does the "Neo-Confederacy" movement in the US. Aka: About nothing beyond the 'name' and trying to invoke a reaction. There's a major REASON that it didn't become an actual 'movement' till the mid-80s and didn't really take off till after the USSR fell in that most of the ACTUAL Germans were 'done' with the Nazi's in 1945 and that included most actual "Nazis" themselves as it was both a failed philosophy and government. After about 1942 the Nazis had managed to screw over Germany so badly that it was quite clear that the 'war' wasn't going to end in rainbows and flowers for anybody including the Germans and most of the population understood this.

Whilst told to 'hate' and 'fear' the Russians in fact they'd been rather LESS "horrible" to the Germans than the Germans were to them and THIS was also pretty well understood by the population of the time. The threat of the "West" had actually gotten the Russian's to allow some German internal and external development by this point and while the conditions were far from great they weren't as bad as it had been under the late period Nazi regime.

I make the Neo-Nazi/Neo-Confederate comparison for the specific reason in that in both cases it has taken a lot of effort and time to 'rehabilitate' both of those failed governments/philosophies to a point where they could be successfully brought back into the open on a general level. The early 50s is WAY to early and long before even the most die-hard "Nazi" could have raised their head AS a "Nazi" and it took till much later and again a LOT of work to allow it to finally do so to the level we see today.

Randy
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The National Democratic Party got over 1 million votes in 1969.
 

Byzantion

Resurgam said:
I would like to invite the OP to offer how this might happen instead of just saying "TANKS."
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The GDR propaganda claimed that the worker´s rebellion of 1953 was predominantly organized by former SA , SS, HJ and NSDAP elements. So they singled out and publicly shamed especially former Nazi-Party and Hitler Youth members accused of taking a leading part in the events leading up to the rebellion. The GDR government wanted to underline their narrative as peaceloving Anti-Fascists ,protecting' the working class against infiltration by Western backed Nazi elements.

In Western Germany at the same time the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) existed at the same time. They had been the legal continution of the NSDAP and only forbidden in 1952.
 
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Gillan1220

Gillan1220

The Neo-Nazis get crushed by the Red Army. Heck, even the West would somehow support this. 1953 is not far-off from the end of World War II.
 

TDM

Short term killing Nazis makes a nice change of pace from cold war tensions,

Long term east Germany get locked down by teh soviets even more than OTL
 

El_Fodedor

Banned
Your best bet for a Neo-Nazi takeover, considering external conditions only, was West Germany in the late Cold War.

The problem is that this is the worst place and time for the internal conditions.
 
Bbone91

Bbone91

At worst, Eastern Germany likely ceases to exist as an independent nation, with its lands being divided among its non-western neighbors. At best you can, as everyone else has pointed out, see tanks rolling in to crush the uprising.
 
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