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Why wasn't there an insurgency in Germany after the end of World War II?

Fred Landis is right about the Germans and Japanese recognizing defeat. On top of that, the defeats were very painful by historical standards. The Germans and Japanese were sick of war, in a way that no Americans could relate to except Southerners in 1865.I would add that meaningful insurgencies don't just happen. They have to be led. Who would have led a German insurgency? The Nazis were discredited, most of the party's top SOBs were dead or soon would be, they had murdered most of the possible alternative leaders, and the surviving alternative leaders had every reason to be grateful for the Allied occupation rather than to resist it.Germans had many reasons to believe that the Americans, French and British would be -- by normal world standards -- fair and generous occupiers. After a spate of vengeance trials, some of them unjust, that proved to be true. We lived up to the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter. Why rebel when you have every reason to believe you'll get your independence and freedom back soon anyway?(The Eastern Zone offered no such comforts, of course, but for a long time, it was fairly easy to escape to the West if you really wanted to. And in 1953 there WAS a brief uprising against the Communists in East Germany.)As for the Japanese, there were some diehards who wanted to fight on, but they were quickly suppressed...by their fellow Japanese. By allowing Hirohito to remain on the throne and to govern the country (under MacArthur's orders, but there was never a military government in Japan), we gave the Japanese a good reason not to resist. It would have been sacrilege to rebel against the Emperor and his protectors, the Allies.The continuity of Japan's domestic self-government, even under occupation, reinforced the public's confidence that they did not need to rebel anyway because they were going to get what they wanted regardless. In addition to the Four Freedoms and Atlantic Charter, the Allies' Potsdam Declaration -- issued after Germany's surrender but a few days before Japan's -- promised that the defeated nations would get to decide their own future governments by democratic methods.Both Germany and Japan had experienced more or less democratic government for a generation or more before 1933, when the Great Depression brought dictatorships to power. All they had to do was wait a few years to get back to it.