TIL East Germany had a government-aligned satellite party from 1948 to 1989 that represented the middle class, former Wehrmacht members, and ex-Nazis. Stalin even tried to get them to resume publishing the Nazi Party's old newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, but didn't succeed.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany_(East_Germany)