Comment by nephihaha

"There were no fascists in the DDR."

Not officially although in reality the Stasi quite happily reused Gestapo files, and there were numerous National Socialists who ended up east of the border.

The GDR had a series of fake political parties, besides the Communist, in order to pretend they were a democracy. I believe they did have one that pretended to appeal to such people.

"There are fascists in the former DDR today."

Much more so than the west which did not have years of Communist rule.