Tin group

The Zinner Group (also Zinner Group , Czech: Zinnerova skupina ) was a faction in the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP) in exile in London, which was loyal to the government in exile of Edvard Beneš .

Situation in the DSAP at the end of the 1930s

The DSAP was a Sudeten German anti-fascist party that was loyal to the ČSR and wanted to actively fight against the aggression of National Socialist Germany. In 1938 a faction was sealed in the party that wanted a modernization of the program and more nationalism.

In exile

After the Munich Agreement , social democrats were persecuted. Only a small number (around 5,000) of them managed to escape into exile. The majority cooperated with Wenzel Jaksch and his trust community of Sudeten German Social Democrats . A small group around Josef Zinner (the so-called Zinner group) was in opposition to Wenzel Jaksch and cooperated with Beneš's government in exile. Thanks to their loyalty, the members of the Zinner Group were able to return to Czechoslovakia after World War II and were not expelled .

After the Second World War

After the February revolution , many of them emigrated to Germany. There they criticized the Seliger community and the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft for their nationalism and cooperation with former Nazis. Their attitude was in opposition to other Sudeten German groups.

source

• Johann Wolfgang Brügel : On the history of the Zinner group. A documentation of the events within the German Social Democrats from Czechoslovakia who emigrated to England in 1938/39. 1973.