According to a 2010 estimate by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there are 25,000 far-right extremists inside the country, but only 11 percent were believed to be women. Although they account for a relatively small number, roughly half of the women who are involved in the scene were recorded as holding leadership positions within nationalist political organizations.

The latest round of voting for the National Democratic Party, known by its German initials, N.P.D., reflected that. In November, three women were voted on to the 35-member executive board of the party. In 2003, the German government tried to ban the N.P.D.

“With this election, the N.P.D. showed that there are many women in its ranks that are anti-feminist, aware of tradition and devoted to their nation,” said Ricarda Reifling, the leader of an all-female group in the party called the Ring of National Women. Its motto is “Nationalism is also for women.”

Marisa, the 20-something protagonist in the film “Kriegerin,” or “Combat Girls,” which was released last month, is less political. She wears a T-shirt emblazoned with “Nazibraut,” or “Nazi bride,” in the opening scene of the film. Yet she is more than just the girlfriend of the gang’s neo-Nazi leader, and as the film develops, she runs a pair of immigrants off the road in a fit of anger and refuses to wait on dark-skinned customers in the supermarket where she works.

The film, by a first-time director, David Wnendt, has won several German film awards and has stayed in the top 10 at art-house movie theaters since its release in January. Although some critics argue that the storyline is weak and fails to explore the motivations behind what drives Marisa and another young woman to join the scene, Mr. Wnendt has been praised for the level of detail used in the film, like the neat white bandage Marisa wears over her swastika when she is in public. Germany bans the overt display of any symbols associated with Hitler or the Nazis, and showing them is grounds for arrest.