Confederation of loyal confederates of the National Socialist worldview

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The Confederation of Loyal Confederates National Socialist Weltanschauung (BTE) was a political party in Switzerland that belonged to the front movement .

history

On March 22, 1938, the BTE was founded by Alfred Zander . Like the Federal Social Workers' Party (ESAP), the BTE emerged from the National Front . Other founding members were Hans Oehler , Wolf Wirz , Hans Robert Jenny and Benno Schaeppi .

The BTE was founded because the National Front was accused of no longer being on the ideological line of National Socialism . The BTE had a total of around 175 members.

Around the beginning of May 1938, Bruno Oswald founded a local group in Bern with around 25 members. The party club was located at Junkerngasse 51, where the members met twice a week.

In June 1938 the BTE carried out two leaflet campaigns, in the first of which three Jews were named and defamed and in the second of which they called for the National Socialist fight for freedom.

The secretariat of the Swiss Confederation of Israelites (SIG) in the city of Bern then contacted the President of the SIG, Saly Mayer . The SIG decided not to take any further steps, but informed the Bern city police about the events.

In September 1938, Zander met Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg party conference of the NSDAP and publicly expressed the idea that Switzerland should join the German Reich . After returning from Germany, Zander was arrested by the Swiss police.

In July 1939 the leaders and members of the BTE were sentenced to prison terms.

On October 22, 1940, the BTE was dissolved on instructions from Germany, and the members joined together with the members of the ESAP to form the Swiss National Movement .

Political orientation

The BTE was very friendly to Germany, anti-Semitic, anti-Bolshevik and advocated joining Switzerland to the National Socialist German Reich.

Magazines

  • Swiss sword (financed with funds from Germany)
  • National booklets

literature

  • Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success . (PDF; 342 kB) Univ. Bern, Historical Institute, licentiate thesis (Brigitte Studer), 2002, slightly abbreviated in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte , 01/03, ISSN  0005-9420 , pp. 3–55.
  • Beat Glaus: The National Front. A Swiss fascist movement 1930–1940 . Benziger, Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Basel ).
  • Matthias Wipf: Frontism in a border town - Schaffhausen in the Second World War 1933–1945 . Univ. Bern, Hist. Institute, Ms. (90 pages), Bern 1998 (location: Schaffhausen City Archives).
  • Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945 . Flamberg / Zurich 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich ).