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Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The ...
Among those present were the KPD military expert Erich Wollenberg, the musician Konstantin Siebenhaar (a German from the Volga Republic), Werner Rakow, a former supporter of the Left Opposition ...
The weight of the decentralizing tendencies within the left led Bremen to remain within the KPD,5 all the more so as it seemed to find leftist aspects in the KPD. Within the KPD, it would be “the only ...
But the KPD—the German Communist Party—never came close to seizing power. In the 14 years of the Weimar Republic, the party only once polled more than 15 percent.
An industrial center of class struggle, the German capital was also home turf for the KPD’s left-wing tendency — figures such as Scholem, Arthur Rosenberg, Arkadi Maslow, and Ruth Fischer ...
Today it must be clear to even the most gullible KPD proletarian why Clara Zetkin said the following in the Reichstag on November 27, 1925, to strong applause from the Völkisch and German nationalists ...
The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was also banned in 1956 when the court deemed the party to be fundamentally opposed to liberal democracy and too closely aligned with Soviet communism.