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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was opposed by both the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and the Communist Party (KPD). In this setting, the SPD organizer Carlo Mierendorff recruited Russian exiled physiologist Sergei Chakhotin as the propagandist of the paramilitary Iron Front, and together they developed propaganda initiatives to counter the ...
The Social Democratic Party has its origins in the General German Workers' Association, founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers' Party, founded in 1869. The two groups merged in 1875 to create the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands).
On 26 September 1990 the Social Democratic Party in the GDR dissolve itself and joined the Western Social Democratic Party of Germany and becoming one single party again. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), since 1990 Hans-Jochen Vogel: 26 September 1990 – 29 May 1991: Björn Engholm: 29 May 1991 – 3 May 1993: Resigned after political ...
The Iron Front (German: Eiserne Front) was a German paramilitary organization in the Weimar Republic which consisted of social democrats, trade unionists, and democratic socialists. Its main goal was to defend social democracy against what was seen as anti-democratic , totalitarian ideologies on the far-right and far-left .
The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. [1] It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war.
The Barmat scandal was a political scandal in 1924 and 1925 in the Weimar Republic which implicated the Social Democratic Party of Germany in corruption, war profiteering, fraud, bribery, and other financial misdeeds. The scandal provided right-wing political forces within Germany with a basis for attacking the Social Democrats and the republic ...
The Sopade reports, officially Germany reports of the Sopade (Deutschland-Berichte der Sopade), were a series of reports published by the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in exile between 1934 and 1940 about the situation in Nazi Germany. The Sopade organized in the countries bordering Germany and relied on its ...
[1] [2] It was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). [1] [3] [4] The first issue of Das Volk was published on 7 July 1945. [1] [5] Das Volk was the second "working-class newspaper" to emerge in Berlin after the Second World War — the first having been the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) organ Deutsche ...