Socialist Workers' Party of Germany

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Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP or SAPD ) were the names of two socialist parties in the course of the history of the German Reich:

  • the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (1875) (abbreviated: SAP), the last forerunner of the party politically organized socialist left in the German Empire, which was renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1890, emerged from the unification of ADAV and SDAP in 1875.
  • the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (1931) (abbreviated: SAPD), the split-off of part of the left wing of the SPD, founded in 1931 at the end of the Weimar Republic, in which individual deviants from communist organizations also gathered, and which the only small remaining USPD joined. After 12 years of underground work in the resistance against the Nazi regime, some of which were led from exile, it disbanded in 1945 after the Second World War.