Black front
The Black Front , which emerged from the Combat Group of Revolutionary National Socialists (KGRNS), was a small National Socialist party in the Weimar Republic that defined itself as an anti-parliamentary combat alliance. The KGRNS came into being in 1930 as a split from the NSDAP that Otto Strasser had forced .
history
Since Otto Strasser's entry into the NSDAP in 1925 , the latter had repeatedly opposed the program aimed at by Adolf Hitler , particularly in the areas of economic and foreign policy . While Hitler's preferred economic system was a corporate and state-controlled capitalism , Strasser preferred an anti-capitalist national socialism . In terms of foreign policy, Hitler pleaded for an alliance with England , Strasser for an anti-Western alliance with the Soviet Union .
In order not to jeopardize the rapprochement between the NSDAP and the DNVP , which eventually culminated in the Harzburg Front , around 1930 Hitler tried to force the representatives of the Strasser wing out of the party. After repeatedly discrediting his person, Otto Strasser published the appeal “The Socialists are leaving the NSDAP” on July 4, 1930, in which he called for support for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the Indian struggle for independence and lamented the “Verbonzung” of the NSDAP. However, the pamphlet was not very well received, most likely among some social - revolutionary -minded leaders of the Hitler Youth . Strasser's brother Gregor remained in the NSDAP. When Otto Strasser left the NSDAP in July 1930, he founded the opposition group Combat Group of Revolutionary National Socialists together with Eugen Mossakowsky , Bruno Ernst Buchrucker and Herbert Blank . This merged among other things with the Tat -kreis and the Wehrwolfen to form the Black Front .
In October 1930, the first Reich Congress of the Combat Group of Revolutionary National Socialists took place in Berlin , where anti-imperialism and fraternization with the Soviet Union were declared . The newspaper “Der Nationale Sozialist” became the movement's journalistic organ. In the spring of 1931, the weak organization experienced a boost when a few hundred people from the Berlin SA joined the Black Front in the course of the Stennes revolt . In addition, there was cooperation with the group around Walther Stennes , and for a short time they merged to form the “National Socialist Combat Group of Germany”. However, this failed after just a few months due to political and ideological differences.
literature
- Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf : Left people from the right. The national revolutionary minorities and communism in the Weimar Republic. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960.
- Jean-Michel Palmier : Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America. Payot, Paris 1988.
Individual evidence
- ^ The time of September 6, 1985: "Otto Strasser's Black Front". Retrieved April 21, 2015 .