- Socialist Reich Party
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The SRP claimed
Konrad Adenauer was an American puppet and thatKarl Dönitz was the last legitimateFührer of a pan-German Reich. [Martin Lee, "The Beast Reawakens" (Warner Books, 1998), p. 50.] It denied the existence of theHolocaust , claimed the ovens of theDachau concentration camp were built by the United States after the war and that films of concentration camps were faked. [Lee, p. 50.] The SRP also advocatedEurope , led by a reunited German Reich, as a "third force" against bothcapitalism andcommunism . [Lee, p. 50.]The SRP never openly criticised the
Soviet Union [Lee, p. 58.] because the Soviet Union funded the SRP as it held anti-American and pro-Soviet views. TheCommunist Party of Germany , on the other hand, did not receive Soviet funds because it was viewed as "ineffectual". [Lee, pp. 74-75.] Remer said that if the USSR ever did invade Germany, he would "show the Russians the way to theRhine " 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". [Lee, p. 65.]The SRP had its own
paramilitary organisation, theReichsfront .The SRP had about ten thousand members and it won 16 seats in the
Lower Saxony Landtag election, and in Bremen scored 8 seats. It was banned in1952 by theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany , the onlycourt with the power to do so.Notes
External links
* [http://www.archive.org/details/GermanysNewNazis "Germany's New Nazis" 1951 pamphlet about the SRP and other neo--nazi groups]
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