What is Socialist Reich Party?
<!--[[Image:Sozialistische reichspartei.PNG|thumb|SRP symbol]]-->The '''Socialist Reich Party of Germany''' ([[German language|German]]: ''Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands'') was a [[political party]] in [[West Germany]]. It was formed in 1949. It was openly [[Neo-Nazi]] and admired [[Hitler]]. It split from the [[German Empire Party]]. Leaders included [[Otto Ernst Remer]], a former Major General, and [[Fritz Dorls]]. The SRP claimed West Germany's first [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]], [[Konrad Adenauer]] was a crony or puppet leader who was beholden to the [[United States]], and that [[Karl Dönitz]] (who Hitler named as his successor in 1945) had been the last legally legitimate leader of Germany. The SRP also falsely maintained that the [[Holocaust]] never happened, and for example, spread disinformation that the ovens used to cremate the murdered victims in the [[Dachau]] [[concentration camp]] were in fact built by United States military authorities after occupying Germany in 1945. The SRP wanted [[Europe]] to be dominated by a reunited Germany, a restored Reich that would neither be [[capitalism|capitalist]] like West Germany or [[communism|communist like East Germany]]. The SRP never openly criticized the [[Soviet Union]],<ref>Martin Lee, ''The Beast Reawakens'' (Warner Books, 1998), p. 58.</ref> and it is likely because the Soviets secretly funded the party to discredit and destabilize West Germany and its US allies. The SRP had its own [[paramilitary]] organization, the [[Reichsfront]]. The SRP had about ten thousand members and, in 1952, won 16 seats in the [[Lower Saxony]] [[Landtag]] election, and 8 seats in [[Bremen (state)|Bremen]]. It was banned in 1952 by the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany]], the only [[court]] in West Germnay with the power to do so. ==Notes== {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [https://archive.org/details/GermanysNewNazis ''Germany's New Nazis'' 1951 pamphlet about the SRP and other neo--nazi groups] {{politics-stub}} [[Category:Former polit