After the occupation of the trade union houses by the Nazis on 2
May 1933, the party executive committee decided that some
particularly endangered members of the board would immediately
have to flee from the grasp of the Nazis. Otto Wels, Paul Hertz,
Friedrich Stampfer, Erich Ollenhauer and others were assigned to
build up a foreign party structure in Prague. When the Sopade
could not reach an agreement with the remaining party executive
committee in Berlin about Paul Löbe against Hitler's peace
resolution, which was interpreted as sanctioning the fascist
foreign policy by the SPD, nothing could prevent the break
between Berlin and Prague, which came two weeks later, in the
mid-May 1933. Because of the final Nazi prohibition of the SPD
on 22 June 1933 it no longer came to a split between the home
and foreign SPD. With the cooperation of Rudolf Hilferding the
Sopade published Germany Reports through a secret correspondence
system. These dealt with the situation in Nazi Germany. The
reports appeared in publishe