Socialist Reich Party

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I would be greatful if somebody could clarify what the situation was with this West German post-war grouping.

Would I be wrong in sainyg that this was essentially a Nazi party in the FDR which was supported and funded by the CPSU?

Also, what was the CPSU position relating to the KPD in post-war West Germany?

[Rjevan]

Would I be wrong in sainyg that this was essentially a Nazi party in the FDR which was supported and funded by the CPSU?
Absolutely, who the hell told you that? :blink:
The Sozialistische Reichspartei was founded in 1949 by Otto Ernst Remer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ernst_Remer), a famous Wehrmacht officer (who personally commanded the strike against Stauffenberg and his men after the failed July 20th plot) and a firm Holocaust denier and by some fellow nazis, after they split from the Deutsche Rechtspartei ("German Right Wing Party").
Not very surprisingly the SRP became the "NSDAP successor", upheld NSDAP policies and slogans like "Honour to the Reich!", "Protect and honour the German soldier!" and talked about "the necessity of a solution of the Jewish question"...
The openly glorified the Third Reich and their members and voters were mainly old SS members and Wehrmacht veterans as well as people who grew up under the Nazi rule. In 1951 they were finally declared illegal.

The SRP was never and in no way supported by the CPSU, nor had it any relations towards the USSR. The word "Socialist" doesn't mean that this party had any socialist views or aims, fascists and even more nazis love to play with the term "socialism" in the names of their organisations or their slogans in order to attract people from the working class and present themselves as a pro-workering class alternative to capitalism, like the Italian Social Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic) under Mussolini, the fascist party Italian Social Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Movement), neo-nazi slogans like "for a national socialism". And the SRP of course wanted to refer to the name of the NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers' Party


Also, what was the CPSU position relating to the KPD in post-war West Germany?
The KPD was supported by the CPSU at first, in the later years they were supported by the SED, the ruling party of the DDR (GDR).

[Comrade Gwydion]

] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Reichspartei#cite_note-Lee.2C_p._50-1) The SRP never openly criticised the Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Reichspartei#cite_note-2) because the Soviet Union funded the SRP as it held anti-American and pro-Soviet views. The Communist Party of Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany), on the other hand, did not receive Soviet funds because it was viewed as "ineffectual".[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Reichspartei#cite_note-3) Remer said that if the USSR ever did invade Germany, he would "show the Russians the way to the Rhine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine)" and that SRP members would "post themselves as traffic policemen, spreading their arms so that the Russians can find their way through Germany as quickly as possible".[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Reichspartei#cite_note-4)



This.
Truth or propaganda?

[Rjevan]

This.
Truth or propaganda?
It is true that the KPD never recieved funding and as I said, later the USSR didn't even support them in any way anymore but the SED did.

But I never heard a word about the SRP being funded by the USSR till now and since they didn't accept the new borders and claimed the whole territory of the Reich till 1938 and therefore "threatening" the USSR, Poland, Austria, and the Czechoslovakia it is pretty unlikely, no matter what Remer said. Strasser and his "left" National Socialists as well as the National Bolsheviks in the Weimar Republic supported the USSR and argued for a German-Soviet alliance, so it may be that Remer thought it would be wise to do the same and that he hoped the Russians would "liberate the Reich" and leave it under SRP controll. But again, I know nothing about the SRP being funded by the CPSU, the German wiki about it doesn't say a word of this, nor is this ever mentioned in the documents of the Bundesverfassungsgericht collected against the SRP in order to ban them or in any other sources about the SRP I know. If there is evidence for this outside of Wikipedia claming this I would be very interested to see it.