Germany is a bastion of "free democratic society," it's just that who exactly are the constitutuents of this democracy is never said out loud.

The Nazis never lost. The BRD was run by them, and their ideological heirs still control the military, police, intelligence, and constitutional protection (Verfassungsschutz). The Communist Party was declared unconstitutional until at least the fifties. Not sure if this article in particular mentions it, but a tiny Trot party in Berlin recently sued the state for putting the party on the "anti-constitutional surveillance list" at Verfassungsschutz. One of the judicial rulings stated that it's all perfectly legal because the party takes the Marxist line on private property, which is in direct violation of the German constitutional protection of private property. Other publications like Junge Welt are also always under surveillance and harassment.

Unfortunately as far as I can tell most people aren't bothered by this. Generations of anti-communism make them think this is good or at least irrelevant. Horseshoe theory and Stalin killed billions and all that.