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[36]_ Rationallomomatische P Por tel Deutschlands (tational Denceretic Party of Gerrieny) © oo
[38]- . Combined Deutsche Rechtspar tei, Deutsche Reichsparte4,” the arlit off Sozdalistiche
[39]Reichspartei and - the Deutsche Pertei.
[41]In August 1%4 ven Thaden arranged a meeting with other r‘pht-wingers to promote
[42]unification of all nationalist forces. Friedrich Thielen serveé as both front .
[44]man and financial backer. A committee of 10 drafted a constitution which. was
[46]accepted in November 1964 by representatives of the DRP, LF, GL? and the DVNP (Deutsche~ |
[48]National Volkspartei). The DRP officially disolved in L:certer 1965 although the .
[50]NPD had, ‘n-fact, lone been the nationalist party. At the 2] larch 197 mect
[52]of the NPD Fxeeut’ ve Comittee, the more moderato Thielen (forrer Deutsche Partei
[54]waa oustod from the NPD by the more extreme vor Thaden forces (€RP).. There vas
[56]no major rush to leave the MhPD,however. Recent reporting hes indicated that those : :
[57]who did leave the LPD,even including Thielen, are being invited back into the NPD. ‘ ;
[59]vee hoe
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[65]meee ttetie oe ABR aka RR PE
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[72]ou ‘Buntestag Blections 1985 i NID's. first Effort 664,187 votes = 2%
[73]ns 2: by “March 1%, cor=unal Slectiars, ‘Schleswic- In nD communities where
[74]ee Folstein. - (ND Hae directive NPD ran candidates,
[75]Reb. to rarticinate, ‘A few-did)° averared 10.5% of vote
[76]. commared with 6% in same.
[77]. towns in 1965,
[78]“3. 13 March 196, Bavarisn Couns! Elections 1.6 % of total Bavarian
[79]: NPD nafor effort ecncentrated vote but: :
[80]ealy in Franconia. Middle Franconia = °.
[82]. Erlangen - 8.2%
[85]oo, . ; Sewhabach-5 6%
[86]. . . Upper Franconia
[90]we ; Coburg - 5.3%
[93]_ & + 2 village mayors
[94]3.9 % (1.8% in 195
[95]No candidates elected
[99]“he 27 March 1966 Hanburg Burgersehaft Slection
[101]56 io July 1966 Northrhein<vestphalia Landtag Electien
[102]No IGD candidates elected none enteral.
[103]6., 16 Catoder 1966 Hamlin Byelection(Commnal Conceil) Bei6 (*65= ) 2 seats
[105]8 Séats in Landtag
[106]Marburg, iesbaden, Barnstadt-
[107]and Glesson =ca 1
[111]“7%, 20 November 19% Bavarian Landtag Slections votes= 7,23
[112]: 15 Seats in Landtag
[114]7.  & Nowenber 19S Hesse Landtaz Slections
[116]8. 23 April 1%7 Sheinland-Falatine 4 Seats, 6.9 % of vete
[118]9. 23 April 19€7 Schleswip-Holsteia 4 Seats, 5.7 % of vote
[120]10. 4 June 1%7 lower Saxony 10 Seats, 7 i of vote
[122]n. L October 1%7 Brexen Burrerschaft 8 Seats, 8.8 % of vote
[124]: 12....28 April 1%E Baden-Wuer ttexberg "12 Seats, %8 I of vote
[126]43, ae Sept 12d Fadecok Oo Sah , A304 vote
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[138]by Charles Lam Markmann
[142]Heidelberg
[143]Had he hved Adolf Hitler would have been 83 years
[144]old on April 20. And at was on this April 20 that the
[145]forces responsible for the ouster of Chancellor Willy
[146]Brandt —tor things must be called by their right names
[147]had almost tiushed preparing West Cermany for
[148]her ‘start on the short march back to the past One
[149]hears everywhere TH we only had a strong man
[150]again.” On the fashionable North Sea resort island of
[151]Sylt, Hitter’s turthday was celebrated in the best Na-
[152]tional Socialist style by several dozen Germans, rane
[153]sogtest 15, aad all of them arrested oa
[154]. orn creculated of displayed Nozi sym-
[155]. sseang men were brown shirts and swastika
[156]by eonads; the gurls frumped themselves up in the
[157]‘uwdy Ulue skirts and white middy blouses of the
[158]Bund deutscher Madein (League of German Gitls), the
[159]auailiary of the Hitler fuged. The walls of the room in
[160]which they held their party were decorated with pic-
[161]tures of Hitler and other National Socialist emblems
[162]for which they had scoured Schieswig-Hotstesn. After
[163]they had hstened to records of Hitler’s and other Nazi
[164]leaders’ speeches and of old pariy march music, they
[165]drank a toast ta the Fuhrer.
[167]When they were arrested, ane of the young men
[168]said the party had been planned merely as Ce guter
[169]Gay.” Perhaps se But for millions of other Germans
[171]‘the re-creation of “the Nazi tune” is serious business?
[172]for some, because they want thuse goad old days back,
[173]and tor a tew because they tear the others may very
[174]easily get thew wish when the Federal Republic ot
[175]Germany must at last put its democracy to the test,
[177]aye
[179]* The fearis herghtened by the steady and at times spec-
[181]tacular nse in what ts called dia Hitlerwelle —the Miler
[182]wave, or Hitler boom — which lias hept pace with the
[183]econaonuc crisis. price ievels and unemployment The
[184]number of weiess has doubled since December
[186]It is as much a Hitler and [fatler-associated boom as
[187]a Nazi boom This is not to say that Nazi thinking has
[189]no folluwing i West Gemiany — quite the contrary, .
[191]as the letiers-to-the-editor columns of newspapers
[193]* demonstrate. in Boyaria~ Nurnberg (indeed where
[194]ele), in a Urh-century Franconian castle, a 25-man
[196]“army” of veuths trains regularly, with the same steel
[197]“es that the Weltunacht used tam 19359
[199]helmets and rm!
[200]to 1945, Their leader is a sign-painter named Karl-
[202]Crtartes Lau MARKMANN, Critic. ranstator and journal.
[203]ist, is at work ox abood about the two German ceptabties.
[205]Hers: Hoftmann, whose goals are simple: the destme:-
[206]hoa cf communisat and big capital, the end of paras —
[207]mentary rule, government by an unclected elite. the
[208]anreation of Austaa (which, as the Weimar Consti-
[209]tution makes clear in Article 61, was also the geal of
[210]the int German “republic, and the reunification of
[211]the Federal Republic of Ge
[212]Dermovraltc Repubhe. .
[214]There is a cure ofsome t20,000 regular readers of the
[215]Nenosa? Zeitung, which for two decades hay been
[216]whitewashing the Nagi era, “proving” that the only
[217]won and extermination camps were those
[218]bait eer the wor by German priseaers under Ameri-
[219]can anders, for propaganda purposes (there are even
[220]pictures}: promating a brisk trade in Nazr medals, uni-
[221]menorabtha, as well as
[222]padty conriesses,
[223]ones),
[225]turms weapons and other
[226]books and recordings of speeches
[227]Narratzions or military campaigns (veectortou
[228]and eaxagioy ma tonly subtle antisemitism, There
[229]is no nea tor biatoncy, alter all the Jews were onty the
[230]first and most conspicuous of Nasi tipets Teelve
[231]or so mil: saws murdered by the Germans died
[233]on non: fe
[234]just as painfully — facts tid are aimost daly Vianded
[236]“Res” in letters to new papers, Occaste a tly in des
[237]onsirations, less infrequently in stwasukastibings
[238]and cemetery vandaliza
[240]Bat these things—the Sylt bithdoy party. Hoff-
[241]which ought to be ithea settouasly —
[242]subers when
[245]the Nasi party’s strength rose dy se
[246]it), the Nutaaagd 2rttisgy the
[247]ans’ avhose windows aid shops aie tilled exclusively
[248]wrth Wehelmnine and especially Nabonal socialist
[249]proms ef the Hitler
[250]preod, fardeeper
[252]Card ma
[254]Harhor tones AG Uaet-
[257]stthing is lar imore wide
[258]and mare “n spectable la West Berba alone there ate
[259]nore han SW cars beansg registrasion phates thar
[260]ater the mondatory “HN ptor Merlint, carry saab fetter
[261]comb ne as Ss. OA, EME RZ betore the varus
[262]nuns. bhese designations ~tor tats Latestatfel
[263](Elite Guards. Sturwaliennag (Sto Trompe}, Hitler
[264]hegeed, Reetzentracton-liger (concentration camp) =
[265]have not been issued tinely. They are issued by
[266]request. and Karl Koenig, the Socral Democet who
[268]abe
[270]* heads the city’s Ecoaumrcs Department, the issuing
[272]Ouice. explains that ander West German law such re-
[273]quess cannot be retused. (Lam not for one moment
[274]inphang that the hiv should be revised: one does not
[275]fisbr reas. or even bite hatreds, with muzzies.) The
[277].
[279]gmany and the German:
[281]fame
[283]Baste
[285]a teanrk
[286]‘4 a Ceca
[290]seer es: ee ere
[292]aetna eeneetiae de ee
[298]14-0000
[300]“of them. hy loschiin C.
[302]l¢ in many other parts of
[304]same hirids of plites are visi
[305]FegstalG Génmany. .
[307]y thousands of pape
[309]There. are. serio
[311]_braphies. of: ‘Euler are eek
[313]Feactionary. Frankfurter Alxe ne , Zewtung, has gone
[314]“well past, 275.00 copies stcalmost $20 apiece — the
[315]“publishers have 25.003 mare ready and waiting in
[316]the warchouse. This book makes much of Eitler’s
[317]“rodernity,” httle cthis parbarities: he was necessary
[318]to his time. The other, whichis much more ovettly an
[319]apologia~1s by Werner Maser, who teaches the Hitler
[320]era at the University of Munich. {t has sold 30,000
[321]copies. It endeavors to create the impression that, had
[322]he not had certain: problems ansing out of misguided
[323]medication in 1933, Higer would have done mare good
[324](and less harm). ,
[325]In addition there are the big hardrover editions of
[327]In England and in the US there has been a revival of
[328]interest in the Hitler era paralleling the orie in West
[329]Gennany At feast 12 Faghvh land Amisican publish-
[331]ers have capitalized on Cus interest, Here's a sempling
[332]ot theit recent books:
[334]Pictures: Siey Heii!, sn Slustrated history of Germany
[335]trom Bismark to Hitler, by Stefan Lorant (Norton),
[336]more than 70) photographs and s literate text Hitler
[337]Clasesnp (Mpemiltan), interesting because these are
[338]the pictures taken by Hiders frend Hemrich Hoff-
[339]mann, with commentan by contidant and diarist
[340]Henry Picker. .
[342]History: Hitler's Rise ts Power, The Nazi Movement ia
[343]Bavana, 1924-1933, by Ceuttrey Prdhan (ilarper &
[344]Row), In-depth answer to the question, what made
[345]people support Hitler in the early ‘209’ Careful and
[346]scholarly.
[348]Milutary: Hisler’s War Arms, The Establishment of the
[349]“New Onter, by Normoa Rich (Norton) ‘The second
[350]volume of a huge, hugely detailed study dealing with
[351]Hatters loresca policies Tre Sse and Fall of the Luft-
[352]waple. by David Irving (Little, Brown), thy life of Field
[353]Marshall Erhard Miih who was second in command
[354]to Goering and who sur -ved to tell much of thi, to the
[355]author The Adwral’s ty 2 Pact, bv Jean Noh (Double-
[356]day!, centaimng authentic first-hand accounts of
[357]U-boat (Grey Wolves) actions, Battle Over the Reich,
[358]by Altred Price (Cambritce University Press), .on-
[359]tains pictures’ and tevt aboutthe bumbuirg and stroting
[360]of German cities and towas. Part of tre revival be-
[361]cause it is Germany seen as destroyed from the arr.
[362]Hetler's Stratesy, IMO-THT the Baltan Cue, by Maitin
[363]van Creveld (Cambridge Unitersity Press), anew view
[365]_ books about Rudolf Hess; Hitler's deputy
[367]ible. ‘aspect ofthe - at-sd, the last prisunerin S|
[369]ead , Tne-New Rersiie,”
[371]Hitler's speeches (four volumes) and Propaganda Min-,
[372]ister Paul Foseph | Ge sbels” (two volume “four new
[373]ho is:now, .
[375]dau, innumerable radio
[377]and. television programs dealing with-various aspects
[378]Be and: pens trues of the period! arid, most: lately, a fort-
[379]. mughtly: Pr ation, Das) dritte Rew hy planned. 16 cover.
[380]the whole °NS-Zeu” for popitlir. consumption in two
[382]years, and then expire.
[384]The Athes<especially the Americans — for a long
[385]time forbade any mention Whatever of the Hitler
[386]Period. and Wese Germany, once it became a more or
[387]less independent state, continued these bans tor years,
[388]Even mer than other peoples, Germans have the
[389]touchmy neuon that censorship and repression will
[390]eftectively ehatinate ideas and facts; and, ayainst this,
[391]neither the ieft aor the ight has the fantest concept -
[392]ot civil iberues. Thus itis ott torbidden, even though
[393]the German Communist patiy has been legalized
[394]again, te foc ai” or “National Socialist’ party,
[395]Consequentty the old SA and S5 men organtzed the
[396]totally Nak Matoshiemo trates he Parte: Deutschlands,
[398]of Hitler's interest in the Mediterranean and his mila-
[401]Rehgion: nean Church Struggle umd the Hoto-
[402]cast (Wave maivecsity Press), a collection ul essays |
[403]that gfew out ot the Fitot International scholars’ Con-
[404]ference in OD.
[406]Refugees: snd Refuge, by A. J. Sherman (University
[408]of Cahtents Press) Aa interesting study of how
[410]Britain chased her policy about retuyees tom the
[411]ory 0933 to 1939 anid why.
[413]t Heydack, by Miroslav Ivanov (Mfac-
[414]millan}. May-Py-play account ot the assassination of
[415]Czech xcupanon bead Reamhard Heydrich and the
[416]Nazi revenge that culmmated in rice Hiller
[417]Juachiin est (Harcourt Brace duvanesacal, the Fry
[418]teansianoa by tichard and Clara Winston ot the bing:
[419]raphy iy sheet nactudes that at Hitler had died
[420]of been billed ot 1955 “fee would hesitate te call hom
[421]aime ob the srestcsd of Geran statesmen.” which may
[422]be why rhe Bown 1s seven cightos over belure we come
[423]to the thtler oc the war years Werner Maser's Mitlhy
[424]legend Mivtvane Rechte (bharper & Row). bnommousty
[425]detatied with sa many tac they obscure the man end
[426]hes works, .
[428]Future: To be pabt shed by Viking in August, already
[429]published im Fretund iSecker & Warburg), The Love:
[430]lest Man ew thy wort, the “inside story of the 30-year
[431]impreoanent of hadolt Hess.” inside because the
[432]author, Eugene K vird, was tarmer commandant of
[433]Spandau Firser. and seems to have won Hess’ confi-
[434]dence Despite u> promises it says very little that has
[435]not already been known or surmised.
[437]— The Editors
[440]Junesi974. os
[442]which, after some initial successes, took cover in the
[443]hardly” inhospitable Christuin Democratic and Chris-
[444]tian Social Unions butchas fece ntly announced, ats |
[445]determination. to “purge itself of! this / taint.” -In
[446]addition in ‘spite ‘ofthe constitutional ban (Article.
[447]18) on any use of civil liberties to endang j
[449]fhons, ‘publishing’ houses, ‘and mail-order book dis:
[450]tributors. No one knows-how many membé sand.
[451]customers the} ‘have “pecause théy operate furtively,
[452]“aa thie: rather” stupid law compels tem (eo da Mut
[454](Courage). a month ly maga: ine addressing a frankly .
[456]Fascist if not Nazi Prograny to the young jin that state,
[457]has a crrculatian of 10.000 and is regarded by the
[458]Lower Saxon Minister of the Intenor as potentially or
[459]latenly dangerous, * .
[461]Everywhere there is curiosity about those mysteri-
[462]ous 12 years. The teachers who taught then are still
[463]_ teaching, unless superannuated. but very few of them
[464]“dare to teach what they used to teach, or even to tatk
[465]about “the past.’ That is why Dus drifté Rewh was
[466]founded this year: to make money vut‘of that curiosity.
[467]The idea was that ot Hans-Peter Dietze, new its man-
[468]aginy editor, according to his editor-in-chief, Dz.
[469]Christian Zentner, who stakes a pious clan to a de-
[470]sue tu-show his young compatnots how the Third
[471]Reich carne to pass. in order tu prevent its ever hap-
[472]pening again, After four issues, Dr. Zentner is not 50
[473]sure that his publisher, the big Hamburg house of
[475]John fahe Verlag KG, will do much more tnan break -
[477]even, because, he told me, what millions of people are
[478]insutably interested in is nol “the abstracdons” of
[479]Nazism and its history but its Personalities, and in
[480]particular Adolf Hitler. These, he says, are “simple”
[481]people who do not tread bouks but who watch televi-
[482]sion and read magazines, and it was they whunthe set
[483]out to capture — to clarify the past for them,
[485]His magazine is cypensive — about $1.50 a copy. A’
[486]treniendous advertising canipaign, of dubious taste,
[487]resulted in first-issue sales some 150,000 above the
[488]750,000 copies that the editors and publishers eax-
[489]pected. The second issue sold between 336 U0 and
[490]340.000 copies, the third something over 250,610 so
[491]far, and the fourth — which 1s stll on the newsstands —
[493]. More than 200,000. The overwhelming majority of the
[494]purchasers and subscribers, Zentner admits, seems to
[495]include few of those young people he was loukiag tur.
[496]the real circulation 1s among the people old enough to
[497]remember, the Nazis who wats furious letters to the
[498]editor b-:cause he tarnishes their legends. Buth Dietze
[499]and Zentner fold me that the greatest sales of Das
[500]dritte Reich are not in cities but out in the country and
[501]the small towns, in Bavaria and Franconia especially.
[503]One of the reasons for the phenomenal success of a
[504]television program called “Lin Herz und eine Seele”
[505](‘One Heart and One Soul”) is its enthusiastically en-
[507]ae ere or ee
[509]“cent of t
[511]avs of the sub-men, by name: the Slavs,
[515]the lews, the: Laas. the Levantines A Gefman erage
[517]eet Because ‘ut his Mlggrtimate ‘birth and
[519]“his “lrattorous” " eondarct trom 1935 to 1y45, when he
[521]“Mou, hy against nasi, as well as bis “selling out" ta
[522]is te B
[524]The > An crgatarly altracts 00-05 pers
[525]enanonal sadience, and ofly-an occasional
[526]editonal writer or.conmmentator dares lo see ils popus
[527]lanty for the darger it is. dts “lett-liberal” creator,
[528]Wolfgang Menage. claims ut to be a satire and so recog:
[529]nized because People say its protagonist, Alued Tet-
[531]“the Reds.”
[533]laft, sounds just hhe Frang Josef Stiauss. the head of -
[535]“the CSU: but then in each regional election this year
[537]more of them vote tor the Strausses.,
[539]In mid-March the Bavarian State Radio dnd Televi-
[540]sion breadcase a long interview wath Pitler’s (and
[541]Franklin Roosevelt's: old trend, Erast (Putey Hane
[542]shiwngl, who is new ST “Uhoughin the ead ~througha
[544]rather gruesome practical joke = he felt he had to thee
[546]to the United staves uy 17, and was malerafly as
[547]sisted by Roosevelt, his old Harvard classmate, in
[548]gaining entey Cater he became an adviser on pubicy to
[549]the American forces’). tanistacngl spent hi whole
[550]time on camera telling what fing fcilawes Hither, Govr-
[551]ing, Goebbels, Himivter tad the others really were,
[552]when alt was said and doue~ and masters of their
[553]trades to boet: tine suldiets, genmocs al propainda,
[554]tnd so wester. There Weimar predecessors he belittled
[555]and dismissed as nethings. though he admitted he
[556]had never Gnown much about their aspirations or
[557]their achievements. Movecaver in spite of having, with
[558]his. wite and sister. lavishly and almost single:
[559]mindedly supported Hider from the days before the
[561]1923 Munchen. Pers. © to bis own abrupt departure tar,
[563]the decadent democracy, Hentstacagh insisted that he
[564]had never nought tor a mement that the unenieting
[565]virulent anti-Semittst of hoy fread and beta would
[566]ever amount to anyching serius (same oriay best
[567]friends wee...) os tind has protege woadd ever have
[568]been “stupid enougs te starta war”
[570]The real danger ot a Hatter renascence, in the view
[571]ef Dr. Huge Marx, 3 scholar who surfered under the
[572]original, hes in the combinaden of a temenhe nostal
[573]gia and the mMlennzs! German faith in autnoritaiion
[574]tule as the solution ty all problems Weimar, ater all,
[575]fatled primanty, as bon William B. Shirer and Kart
[576]Dietrich Bracher hove shown, because no one, includ-
[577]ing the Social Demociats who proclaimed it out of
[578]desperation when trey could find neither a Hohen-
[579]zollem nor any cihes voyalty to accept the throne,
[580]wanted a reputiic. Wren the economic crash came
[581]after 1929, the midenzial search for the “strong man*
[583]lost its last restraint.
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[590]“COUNTRY West Germany
[591]“pot “Maton ok 5
[593]SUBJECT Intention: ‘of ‘the’ Executive Conini tte ot.
[597]7 Intelligence Information Report
[599]inbecsiaton eteng he Mer cet’ Colsnte ef he Us ted Stree within the meaning
[600]wwomsge teen Tele ld USC Sane 78) wed” We Ae henenee oF veyeletion hen whih in oop
[601]1 Brewer He On ere ented parte Is erehi bed” ‘by, tow,
[603]“bincfonsre ron “xo FOREIGN: DISSEM : 7 PAGE} OF "1 eAGis
[605]toe
[607]‘the Nat donal Democratic. Party toa Urge!
[608]Non-participation of the Party in Baden-
[609]‘ Wuerttenbderg Election = Se
[611]aca Germany, Hamburg (io March 1972) FIELD NO. -BGG-1825 _
[613]source An official West German security service at the Land level,
[615]Analogous information from other West German services should
[616]hot be construed as.confirmation, The Sub-source is an NPD
[617]- official who had access to the information.
[619]ls The executive committee of the Wost German National
[620]Democratic Party (NPD) wild mect on 18 Mareh with officials
[621]of the Baden-Wuerttemborg NPP orpanization and attempt to
[622]persuade the Land organization not to contest the 23 April
[623]Land election, The executive committee will point out that
[624]Tf the NPD does not. rua. candidates in this election, the
[625]_ chances’ for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to obtain a
[626]majority in the Baden-Wuert temberg election will be enhanced,
[627]This would enable the CDU to retain its Bundesrat majority
[628]‘and improve the chances of defeating the Eastern treaties of
[629]the Social Democratic Party/Free Democratic Party government,
[631]2. The background ‘of the executive committee's desire
[632]to avoid contesting the Raden-Wuerttemberg clection is its
[633]estimate that the NPD would capture only two per cent of the
[634]vote this year compared with 9.4 per cent in the last
[635]election, a result which the executive committee is most
[636]anxious to avoid, ’
[638]3. Field Dissem: Sent to Bonn and Berlin.
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[767]country WEST GERMANY:
[769]suwect SUMMARY OF ADOLF VON THADDEN'S
[771]3 DECEMBER SPEECH TO THE NORTH= —-= * .
[772]WEST MINING ASSOCIATION
[774]: Aca GERMANY, HAMBURG (23 NOVEMBER 1971) FIELD NO, EGG-1721
[775]} source AN OFFICIAL WEST GERMAN SECURITY SERVICE AT THE LAND
[776]y . LEVEL. ANALGGOUS INFORMATION FRCM OTHER WEST GERMAN
[778]SERVICES SHOCLD NOT BF CONSTRUED AS CONFIRMATION. THE SUB-
[779]SOURCE IS, AN NPD OFFICIAL WHO HAD ACCESS TO A COPY OF THE
[781]DRAFT SPEECH.
[783]1. (FIELD COMMENT: ADOLF VON TH 4 D D EN, FORMER
[784]: NATIONAL CKAIRHAN OF THE WEST GERMAN NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
[785]PARTY (NPD), HAS -BEEN INVITED TO SPEak TO THE ANNUAL
[786]: GENERAL MEETING CF THE NORTHWEST MINING ASSOCIATION,
[787]7 , SPOKANE, WASEINGTON, ON 3 DECEN DER ON THE TOPIC: A
[788]EUROPEAN'S VIEW OF TEE AMERICAN CURRENCY PRODLEN. SEE
[789]A AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL HAMBURG TELEGRAM 767, 10
[790]NOVEMBER 1972. DESPITE VON THADDEN'S RECENT RESIGNATION
[792]FROM HIS NPD POST HE STILL PLANS TO ATTEND THE MEETING AND
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[814]To PRESENT ‘THE | SPEECH WHICH as: Suhmanrzip BELOW, )
[815]se VON, ‘7TADDEN BEGINS BY. TRACING ‘THE ATSTORY OF
[817]Onn. UNITED STATES' RELATIONSHIP WITH GERMANY FROM WORLD
[819]Wak’ ‘y ‘TO TH
[821]RESENT, DEVOTING CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO
[823]* THE ‘1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH, HE GIVES CREDIT TO THE
[824]UNITED STATES FOR HELPING. EUROPE BACK ON ITS FEET AFTER
[826]WORLD WAR 1 THROUGH THE MARSHALL PLAN.
[828]BUT POINTS OUT
[830]_ THAT THE NATIONS WHICH WERE HELPED USED THE AID TO BUILD
[832]AN EXPORT BASE WHICH NOW IS CONTRIBUTING TO ANERICA'S
[834]’ FINANCIAL TROUBLES. HE SAYS THAT GERMANY AND OTHER -
[836]COUNTRIES BECAME INFECTED WITH AN "EXPORT HYSTERIA"
[838], AFTER THE WAR WHICH HAD SHORT ‘TERN BENEFITS FOR WORLD
[840]TRADE; BUT WHICH IN THE LONG RUN DAMAGED THE DOMESTIC
[842]ECONOMIES OF THE EXPORTING COUNTRIES,
[846]3. THE 15 AUGUST 1971 SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NIXON IS
[848]COMPARED WITH THE 24 OCTOBER 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH,
[850]AND VON THADDEN SAYS THAT THE SPEECH WILL HAVE JUST AS
[852]AL SYSTEM AS DID
[854]PROFOUND AN EFFECT ON THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL &
[856]THE CRASK. HE DEPICTS THE
[858]EECH AND THE RESULTING CONTROLS
[860]AS SPELLING THE END OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM ESTABLISHED
[862]AT BRETTON-WOODS,
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[880]4, aN His: ANALYSIS. oF THE TYPE oF WOLD ECONOMIC . a
[881]SYSTEM wate ‘SHOULD FOLLOW THE CURRENT. AMERICAN CONTROLS
[882]"AND FLOATING OF THE. DOLLAR, VON THADDEN DRAWS HEAVILY FROM
[884]THE 23 SEPTEMBER PRESS CONFERENCE ‘OF FRENCH PRESIDENT POMPIDOU, .
[885]HE SAYS THAT THE DOLLAR CAN NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED THE
[886]SINGLE WORLD CURRENCY.” THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF EUROPE
[887]MAKES. IT NECESSARY THAT A EUROPEAN RESERVE CURRENCY BE
[888]~ AVATLABLE AS A SECOND WORLD CURRENCY. THIS CANNOT BE
[889]THE ‘BRITISH POUND AS MANY PEOPLE AT ONE TIME WOULD HAVE
[890]' BELIEVED, BUT MUST BE ‘A CURRENCY ACCEPTED BY BOTH FRANCE
[891]AND GERMANY AND ADMINISTERED BY A COMMON GERMAN~FRENCH
[892]BANK SUPPORTED BY GOLD, ALL EUROPEAN STATES WOULD USS
[893]THIS BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS.
[894].. VON THADDEN VIEWS POMPIDOU'S SPEECH AS A SIGNAL TO THE
[895]+ UNITED STATES THAT THE FRENCH ARE NOT WILLING TO STAY
[896]PERMANENTLY UNDER ECONOMIC PRESSURE FROM WASHINGTON, AND
[897]AS PROVIDING AN OUTLINE OF THE TYPE OF ECONOMIC CRDER
[898]EUROPE SHOULD HAVE IN TEE FUTURE. HE CRITICIZES THE WEST
[899]GERMAN GOVERNMENT FOR NOT TAKING A SIMILAR STAND, SAYING
[900]THAT WHEN IT IS POSSIBLE FOR ONE STATE TO PUT ECONOMIC
[901]‘ PRESSURE ON, OTHER STATES, THE SITUATION CAN LEAD TO
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[927]. 5. VON THADDEX SEES Two ALTERNATIVES IN THE PRESENT
[928]SITUATION, I.E., EITHER A RETURN TO FIRM PARITY WITH A
[929]DEVALUED DOLLAR, OR A CHANGE TO FLEXIBLE EXCHANGE RATES
[931]. at AGREED TO BY THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES AND GUARANTEED BY
[933]INDIVIDUAL CURRENCIES. HE BELIEVES THE DOLLAR MUST BE
[934]DEVALUED BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES CANNOT EXPECT EUROPEANS. _
[935]TO CONTINUE TO BUY THE DOLLAR AT A RATE WHICH IS NOT ,
[936]LEGALLY FIXED, WE VIEWS FLEXIBLE EXCHANGE RATES AS
[937]DESIRABLE FOR EUROPE, BLT NOT REALIZABLE AT PRESENT
[938]BECAUSE THIS SYSTEM WOULD EXCLUDE THE "THIRD WORLD"
[940]AND THUS WOULD BE OPPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES.
[942]7 6. SUMMARIZING, VON THADDEN STRESSES THE NECESSITY
[944]| FOR THE FREE WORLD TO REMAIN STRONG AND FOR EACH EUROPEAN
[946]COUNTRY JO RETAIN ITS NATIONAL CHARACTER AND DIGNITY TO
[948]_ PREVENT . DOMINATION BY COMMUNIST AND FAR~LEFT FORCES. HE
[950]CRITICIZES THCSE WRG SAY THAT AMERICA IS NO LONGER NEEDED
[952]aS A COUNTERWEIGHT TO THE USSR, DECLARING THAT THERE 1S
[954]-NO. OTHER COUNTRY WHICH CAN SERVE IN THIS CAPACITY, ESPECIALLY
[956]‘NOT PRESENT DAY WEST GERMANY. HE SAYS THAT THE WEST
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[1001]“WHO ARE FRIENDLY TO CONNUNISM, HAVE LOST THEIR NATIONAL
[1002]CHARACTER AND ARE TOO WEAK TO OPPOSE THE USSR. HE ENDS
[1003]BY CALLING FOR A CHARACTER RENAISSANCE IN THE FREE WORLD
[1004]TO MAKE IT STRONG ENOUGH TO COUNTER COMMUNISM, (HEADQUARTERS
[1005]COMMENT: . THE STATEMENT OF VON THADDEN IN SPOKANE MAY
[1006]ATTRACT PRESS INTEREST DUE TO THE NOTORIETY HE GAINED IN
[1007]RECENT YEARS AS LEADER OF A GERMAN NATIONALIST PARTY
[1009]WIDELY DESCRIBED AS NEQ-NAZI. IN FACT, THE PARTY. HAS
[1010]DECLINED IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC TO THE POINT WHERE IT
[1012]IS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION, AND VON THADDEN'S RECENT
[1013]RESIGNATION FROM THE PARTY CEPRIVES HIM OF ANY POLITICAL
[1014]PLATFORM IN WEST GERMANY.)
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[1044]neronr NO, €§-311/01861- a
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[1051]- COUNTRY West Germany oo :
[1052]DOF March 1972. ; “62, \ D> A by :
[1053]v . ‘ . oo . 2 NS y .
[1054]SUBJECT ‘Intention of Adolf Von. Thadden  - :
[1055]an ’ to Resign As Chairman ‘of the
[1056]National Democratic Party -
[1057]. Aca” : “Germany, HMambutg (8 March 1971) RUD NO. KGG- 1682 > a -
[1058]- SOURCE An ‘official West German Security Service concerned with
[1060]Hf
[1061]3
[1063]right and Teft radical organizations, from sources described |
[1064]as NPD officials, who have access to the information.
[1066]Similar information received through. other- West German
[1067]intelligence chatnels should not be construed as ‘confirmation,
[1069]2 “1. In early March 1971 Adolf Von Thaddaden
[1070]indicated to close associates including members of the
[1071]i Executive Committee of the National Democratic Party of
[1072]: : Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands -
[1073]: NPD) that he plans to resign as Chairman of the NPD in
[1074]: the near future. Von Thadden has not announced the date
[1076]i when he plans te resign but close associates believe
[1077]: it will he sometime during the period 1 April to i June
[1079]— 1971.
[1081]; 2. Von Tnhadden's decision lias been prompted by his
[1083]2 discouragement over prospects for the NPD, serious financial
[1085]: difficulties of the party and by severe internal bickering
[1087]i within the NPD Executive Copmit.tee during the past several -.
[1088]weeks. Von Thadden is basically more modera te than many
[1089]members of the Executive Committee. Among other disagreanents,
[1090]Von Thadden has opposed certain aspects of the “Resistance
[1091]} Action" - (Aktion Widerstand) in which NPD members have
[1093]: recently staged demonstrations which crupted inte violence,
[1094]Von Thadden was aiso personally humiliated when his sister
[1095]and other relatives asked him not to attend the funeral
[1097]of Von Thadden's brother-in-law, the well-known historian
[1098]Perey Schram, who died in Goettingen in January 1971,
[1100]Me BOO be OF
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[1115]: 3. (Source Comment: “Yon Thadden* s resignation
[1116]will in alt probnui lity, mean’ the ond of tho NPD a& an
[1117]ective political organization, With the possible
[1118]Cption. of. the :Bavarian District Chairman of the NPD,
[1119]Dr... ‘Siegfried. ‘P:@ eh lmanon, the NPD lacks effective
[1120]nd° dynamic leaders .. Pochimann, however. has health
[1122]HMeghit- wing groups | coming ‘into sult in a
[1124]wht : ike . the Fecent "Aktion Widerstand" may
[1125]‘opensity- for violence. After the NPD disin-
[1127]: rate ‘most -of* tts former supporters will _probably
[1128]“easttheitr ‘votes for one of the three major political
[1130]parties in West Germany, . The CDU and CSU stand to gain
[1132]most.of these votes.)
[1134]4. Field Dissem: None.
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[1178]‘ suajectT analyte ‘of the itest German National «> : 7
[1179]‘ Democratic Party's Election Chances sos
[1180]“and Cohesiveness
[1184]| aca Germany (27 February 1970) © FIELO NO, OGAaOS3: -
[1186]- gource A medium-level West German government official who follows the
[1187]activities of the National Denocratic Party (NPD). from an (NPD.
[1188]official who attended the party congress. The report is the ,
[1189]NPD official! s -analysis of the party’ 8 situation in the wake
[1190]of’ the congress. The information is also passed to an official
[1191]West German service, from which similar information should not
[1193]be construed as confirmation, . .
[1195]‘ . ‘ -
[1196]1, Adolf von Thaddeon. NPD chairman, remains firmly da
[1197]control of the party following the 14-15 February 1970 NPD congress
[1199]in Werthein, : i
[1201]-
[1203]2. Skepticism about. the future of the NPD is increasing among
[1204]party leaders. The NPD is definitely planning to wage vigorous cam=-
[1205]paigns in al] 1970 Land elections, but there appears to be little
[1206]chance. that the party will do even as well in these elections as it
[1207]did in the 1969 Bundestag electiozs. when it failed to obcain fiye :
[1209]ee 1
[1211]‘percent of, the total vote,
[1213]3. <At.the congress, several rrominent NPD leaders emphasized
[1215]the-need for party unity; these apsceals were well received: by the*
[1217]delegates. There are many unresolved questions and problems, how-. '
[1218]i ever, which will continue to plague the party. For instance, the
[1219]| "national-conservative.” concept, vrich was adopted in the manifesto
[1220]j issued by the congress, came under strong attack. One group, which = 3
[1221], includes both older and younger menbers, rejects the concept of the
[1223]NPD as 4 conservative party, because they consider. that this term
[1224]conveys the idea that the party is an out-of-date and reactionary
[1225]political group, On the-other hand, the proponents of the national-- ‘
[1226]| conservative concept consider thenselves as upholding “positive .
[1227]{ vadues" inthe face of manifestaticas of disintegration. Von Thadden « ©
[1228]! is the party's unifying force, tnd one delegate accurately summarized — :
[1229]} "Von Thacden, by virtue of the charisma of « !
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[1240]his speeches, succeeded in bridgizg the many cracks in the party,"
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[1274]SECRET ee FEPORT NO. cs-311/08556- -69
[1275], 7 DATE DISTR. N26 Septenber 1988
[1277]West Germany
[1278]dune 1968, ‘1 September 1969 wo e
[1279]test German ‘Ministry of laterior _
[1280]| Evaluation of the Prospects of
[1282]Banning the National Democratic
[1283]Party .
[1285]ps ACQS * ‘Gerdiany. a Septeaber 1969) FELD NO. OGA-919°-
[1287]SOURCE A mediun-level’ West: ‘German government official who follows -
[1288].  -the activities of the National Democratic Party and who had
[1289]te acéess, to thé study during his official duties. The informa- . -
[1290]_tion was extracted from the original document and 16 believed -
[1291]to be an accurate summary of its highlights. : :
[1293]' Summary: In June 1968, the West German Ministry of the Interior
[1294]prepared a basic study of the -prospects'of banning the West German
[1295]National. Democratic Party (NPD). The summary of this study given
[1296]below describes the major ‘charges which the government could. bring
[1297]against the NPD, the defenses the NPD could be expected to make
[1298]against these charges, and the probable political results which
[1299]would follow both a successful and an unsuccessful case against the
[1300]NPD, According to the source, this study is still considered the -
[1301]basic Interior Ministry evaluation of the case against the NPD and
[1302]is being studied by senior federal government and state (Land)
[1304]officials, | End of Summary,
[1306]1, (Field Comment: For several years, West German political
[1307]and government leaders have debated seeking a constitutional court
[1308]ban on the NPD, On 13 November 1968, Ernst Benda, West German
[1309]Interior Minister, advised Chance llor Kurt Georg Kicsinger
[1310]that there was sufficient evidence to- warrant bringing a sult against
[1311]the NPD. Kiesinger, however, opposed bringing a suit, “and the sub-
[1312]ject became embroiled in West German politics. Gn 23 April 1969,
[1313]the Federal Cabinet decided not to se€k # court ban of the NPD, at
[1315]’ least until after the September elections, This decision. was
[1316]prompted by evidence that the NPD was making no membership gains
[1318]and apparently was losing popular support. )
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[1344]. 2. In: June 1968, the West German Interior Ministry prepared
[1345]a 50-page study” ‘of the prospects for’ banning the NPD ‘entitled
[1346]“Considerations Regarding a Bati of the Nattonal Democratic Party."
[1348]. The. study, wag wekl prepared and carcfully written, It is still
[1349]_considered the ‘basic Taterior Ministry. paper on the. NPD and is
[1350]_ de ing | ptudiéed by senior offictals “of both’ the federal ‘and #tate
[1352]governments, -
[1354]Tt avoids Biving: a acopinton on. the “prospects of ob=
[1356]that: the’ ‘authors’ belicved ‘that the ‘courts
[1357]‘government | Oil odie to ban ‘the’ NPD.
[1359]"té Sobteie'« a’ ban, against. the’ "NPD, )
[1363]3. The study: stimarized ‘the case whieh could: be brought
[1364]against the NPD as follows:
[1366]a. It could be shown that there was a similarity
[1367]between the NPD and the National Socialist German Workers
[1368]Party. (NSDAP) which has been outlawed, ‘
[1370]m b. It could be argued that the goals, and parts of
[1371]_ the party platform, of the NPD are contrary to the prin-
[1372]“ciples of a free democratic state, ‘ .
[1374]The study concludes that-.a sufficiently strong case could be pre-
[1375]sented to prevent the case being thrown out by the courts without
[1377]a hearing. .
[1379]4. The study lists the following points which the NPD cculd
[1380]be expected to use in its defense:
[1382]- a. The party could prove that it has given firm png teuc:
[1383](tious to its members. not to engage in rowdy ism. or violencé, 3
[1385]b. It could show that a sizeable number of former
[1386]NSDAP members have been forced out of the party as part
[1387]of the Selbstre ini gun g (self~c leaning) process.
[1389]c. It could point out many features of its program
[1390]which are in. accord with democratic principles.
[1392]d. It could show that its elected representatives
[1393]have worked with other parties and have not. disrupted the
[1394]Landtage (state diets) and other~ elected bodies in which
[1395]they participate.
[1397]e. It could point out that other political parties
[1398]have many @x-Nazis and ex-communists as members and could
[1399]claim that the majority of the 28,000 NPD members are not
[1401]. opposed to the concept of the Federal Republic.
[1403]f. It would charge that the government's charges were
[1404]one-sided, unfairly presented, and out of dste,
[1406]g. It would claim that not all of Professor Ernst
[1407]Anrich ™“s points were included in the party plat-
[1408]form. “(Field Comment: Anrich is a former university ”
[1409]professor. from “Darmstadt whose proposals were apparently more
[1410]extreme ‘than those ‘incorporated in the'party platform. )
[1412]h. It could claim that the increased violence
[1414](Verrohung) of the political climate in West Germany is
[1415]the fault of the New Left and not of the NPD.
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[1429]fute these NPD defenscs in court. The government would have to
[1431]admit that sfnce carly 1963-there have been very few statenetits
[1432]: made “by. NPD leaders, ‘or incide ats Caused by the ‘NPD, which ‘could
[1433]‘pe uséd to support the. government! S case, Object ively, it would
[1435]have to be admitted that many. ince idénts of violence in which the
[1437]NPD ‘has ‘been involved ‘were tnitiated by opponents of the party,
[1439]6... The mtudy: predicts” the following, probable results should
[1441]its. case. against the’ NPD:
[1443]the government win
[1445]The NBD: would athe? respect the pronibitton,
[1447]a c. NPD and rightist sympathizers would begin a can-
[1448]paign for the banning of the new German Communist Party
[1449](DKP) and other leftist groups.
[1451]d. A ban of the NPD would be well received in foreign
[1452]countries, Lo
[1454]7. The study concludes that 1f the government should lose a
[1456]case against the NPD, it would be the result of the lack of valid
[1457]the following
[1459]evidence (Beweiaschwierigke iten + (In such an event,
[1461]adverse effects would occur:
[1463]' a. The NPD would receive a new impetus and valuable
[1464]publicity.
[1466]b. The policy of Selbstreinigung which has had sone
[1467]success in. keeping former Nazis out of key positions would
[1469]be halted.
[1471]ce. Many middle-class persons who sympathize with the
[1472]NPD, but who have refrained from open support because of
[1473]the stigma of being associated with 4 party which could be
[1474]declared illegal, ‘would join the party or become active
[1475]supporters.
[1477]d. The party would undoubtedly attract more members.
[1478](Field Comment: The NPD leadership is known to be worried
[1479]because the party's membership has not increased sigaifi-
[1480]cantly during the past 18 months.)
[1482]8, Field Dissem: Embassy Bonn, USBER.
[1484]S ECR E T/NO FOREIGN DISSE
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[1504]actin FUGSINCD + Pa .
[1506]REF: EGUT-145 189, ‘dated 9 September. 1969 yhe
[1508]We are very, ‘pleased vith the quindity ¢ of the informa.’
[1509]tion off the. NPD which has’ beon made’ available through CATERROR, .
[1510]It. is particularly useful during this preé- ~election period, but |
[1511]we also: apprécinte not -having to wait 6 to 8 weeks for CATAISPER
[1513]to. digest the ma terd al ‘and “pass - ‘it on,
[1515]fo ee os amen ae omen meee.
[1517]4
[1518]a
[1519]4
[1520]e
[1523]2. After looking over the Reference, we are inclined
[1524]to stick with the requirements mentioned in DIRECTOR 39264 for.
[1525]items worthy of intel dissemination... In this context Bona
[1526]State Department Telegram 12253 dated 17 September quotes
[1527]Foreign Minister Brandt as saying that there has been evidence
[1528];that the East Germans, undoubtedly with Sovict approval, had
[1529]given financial support to von Thaddcn, While we are inclined
[1530]to think that Brandt's comment may be wishful thinking,
[1531]evidence ‘of East Gorman financing for the NPD would be of great
[1532]intercst and utility. Material not bearing on the requirements”
[1533]in DIRECTOR 39284 should be forwarded now to Neadquarters for
[1534]review. The NPD, as you know, is a subject of interest beyond
[1535]its ‘proportions as a political force, and we are grateful for
[1536]the timely opportunity to keep up with the ins and-outs of it.
[1538]Aimak 6 co vette
[1539]Harriet G, COCOLLATO
[1541]@ - COB/Berlin
[1542]2 - COS/Germany
[1544]Group I + 7
[1545]Excluded from Automatic
[1546]Downgrading and Declassification
[1548]CROSS ALFEREKCE TO OISFATCH SYMESL AND NUMZER
[1550]OATE
[1551]8-0. SEp-fo¢
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[1587]Intelligence Information Report
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[1595]THIS" is "AN INF ORSRATION. REPORT, NOT Las xX Y Fy ALUATEOD INTEIGENCE
[1597]DIRECTORATE OF
[1598]PLANS __
[1600]REPORT NO. C$ =311/08430-69
[1602]mber _
[1604]WP a By a
[1606]_SECRET oo
[1607]ee rr oate piste ( 22 Septe
[1609]COUNTRY - , —
[1611]West Germany
[1613]: ool Early August 1969 |
[1615]- -$ussecT” MiScellanéous information’ on ‘the
[1616]National Democratic Party
[1618]ACQ Germany, Hamburg (15 August 1969) Fao NO, EGG-1444, on
[1619]“+, °° SOURCE Member of the Natiénal Democratic Party in Schleswig-Holstein
[1621]‘whose reliability has not yet been established. He obtained
[1622]the information from two district officials of the Party.
[1624]1, According to a ranking official of the Kiel district
[1625]of the National Democratic Party (XPD), Karl-Heinz
[1626]Knipphals, the chairman of the Kiel district of the
[1627]NPD, and Adolf von Thaddeon, the national chairman
[1628]of the NPD, are personal enemies, {Source Comment: In
[1629]January 1969 Knipphals was elected to be his party district's
[1630]candidate for the West German Parliament. Knipphals, a Kiel
[1631]lawyer, .is in his early 50's. He was severely wounded during
[1632]World War IIT and has only. one arm.)
[1634]on 2. Von Thadden is aware of, and unhappy about, the fact
[1635]that Knipphals, prior to joining the NPD, participated in
[1636]Easter Marches and received unfavorable publicity. Further-
[1637]more, voiv.Thadden is. concerned about Knipphals’ strong and ;
[1638]ruthless political ambitions, He has referred to Knipphals
[1639]as a "second Hitler", and he welcomes and encourages the fact .
[1640]that there is strorg opposition to Knipphals even within the -
[1641]Kiel district of the party. Von Thadden, for the above .
[1642]reasons, would very much like to see Xnipphals remain on the
[1643]district level and is anxious to keep him out of the West
[1644]German Parliament,
[1646]3. The same official. who made the remarks about von .
[1647]Thadden and Knipphals. also stated that many wealthy industrial- tod
[1648]ists contribute funds to, the NPD anosynously, because they do :
[1649]not wish their association or sympathy with the party to : :
[1651]s become known. ; 50
[1653]4 ‘ at
[1655]3 4, The chairman of another NPD district in, Schleswig- hs ar!
[1656]32 Holstein stated that, in view of the fact that each new aru i
[1657]i , rich
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[1677]“the NPD will insure that the: oldest. member - Sees next |
[1679]_possibility’, that” an "NPD: ‘Deputy mirht open ‘the Bu
[1680]already been ‘considered: by the CDU, See cS-311708te4- Bots"
[1682]/. Ls 8). Pield Dissem: None (sent Bona, Berliti) . oo.
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[1699]SUMUECT. "German Government Evidénce against
[1701]Sem PA
[1702]-ntelligence Information 1. Sport
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[1705]moons
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[1711]. RE SSEN Ll :
[1712]a THS AS. sy TNEORMATION REPORT. ‘NOT FINALLY EVALUATED TNTEWIGENCE
[1714]“RepORT NO. CS LT-3 13 /01123+69
[1716]a
[1717]"> bate DISTR: 9 July. y 1969 , -
[1721]the National ’ Democratic Parity (NPD) . \u
[1723]acQ Germany, Bonn (26 March 1969) "| IRD NO. EGN-4107
[1725]SOURCE An official West German security service. . = wc
[1727]. . ; . : .
[1729]i a. Vi-pase German-language report, describing the
[1731]National Democratic: Party (NPD) and presenting documentary
[1732]and testimonial evidence of possibly unconstitutional aspects
[1733]of the NPD, has been deposited in the files of the CIA Docu-
[1734]ment and Pictorial Services Division, from which copies may
[1735]be obtained upon, request. The report is the shorter of two
[1736]versions prepared by the Federal Office for the Protection of
[1737]the Constitution (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz). This
[1738]shorter version is Said to be complete in substance and is
[1739]the version which was made available to West German Cabinet
[1740]members in preparation for Cabinet discussion of whether the
[1741]NPD should be.banned. The longer, two-volume version has not
[1742]been obtained.
[1744]2. Appraisal of the leita validity of the evidence
[1745]against the NPD was omitted from the report at the order
[1746]of the Minister of the Interior, who reserved to himself an.
[1747]assessment of the NPD's ‘legality. Also. pages 9 to l3--a
[1748]section entitled Chief Features of the Ideology (Grundzuege
[1749]der Ideologie)--was omitted from the report at the request
[1751]of the Minister of the Interior. (Headquarters Comment:
[1752]The evidence in the report appears to be overt and less than
[1753], conclusive. The West German Cabinet decided in the spring
[1754]of 1969 not to request a ban of the NPD; substantial doubt
[1755]existed as to whether there were sufficient grounds to obtain
[1756]‘a legal ban of the NPD, The omissions from the text, referred
[1757]‘to in this paragraph,. may reflect realization by the Interior
[1758]Ministry of the weakness of the case against the NPD. }
[1759]5 4. Field Dissemination: U. S. Embassy Bonn (limited).
[1760]3 ‘Distribution of Attachment:
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[1789]th moteno! contains laformetiod offering the Nattonol Delonte of the United Stotes wi as
[1790]anege A fete 18 USC. Sere, 793 ond PRA the fron: Wrontmission oF revelation of ta ony Learcnper paren
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[1797]. . . ‘COUNTRY West rmany eo : .
[1798]8 ou” Heat BerkinMtege Germany © Kt |
[1799]Me - + go March to Mid-May 1969 _ ey
[1800]_ : 7 susiect ‘Status Report oa Protlens, Activities : ; As on
[1801], Tas Fou... and Plans of the West Berlin National \" vt
[1802]‘cf "* Democratic Party” * WW
[1804]: > | ~ Germany, Berlin: —-~ : ; Co
[1805]> neq. (Maréh ~ Mid-May 1969) oe FiIeLO.NO. EGB-24,611 tty
[1806]“Intercepted. communications, supplemented by information from a of
[1807]member “of the West Berlin National Democratic Party (NPD) with
[1809]close contacts among. members of the Berlin NPD Executive Council
[1811]and a record of accurate reporting.
[1813]SOURCE
[1815]: r Summary: The Berlin NPD has been plagued by a split between the
[1816]6 wot Berlin City leadership, which is loyal to the Party's national leaders,
[1817]; : and the "Loyalists" headed by the Berlin district leaders, who opposed
[1818]the dissolution of the Berlin NPD. _ordered by National Party Chairman ;
[1819]ro _ Adolf von Thadden in October ° 19683. Court “action led to the thwarting .
[1820]<oF ‘of the plan for dissolution, - In an effort to keep the Berlin Party
[1821]° Talo - alive, in mid-March von Thadden ordered a cessation of open Party ac-
[1822]wf if ' - tivities until after the Septembcr parliamentary elections. Subse-
[1823]4 _ quently, von Thadden arranged a- postponement of a scheduled Berlin
[1824]| Party convention until October, because of the possibility of a ban
[1825]] on the Berlin NPD by. the Allies and the threat of trouble from the Lt
[1826]i militant left. At the end of March, Berlin. City NPD Chief Rudolf wot
[1827]Kendzia resigned in an effort to” promote party unity in Berlin, but
[1828]“he remains active..behind the scenes. Since carly April, the Berlin
[1829]_ NPD leadership has followed von Thadden's guidelines. The influence -
[1830]et of the Loyalists has been greatly reduced, and in accordance with
[1831]von Thadden's instructions party activities have been circumspect,
[1832]Both the Berlin and the National leadership are hoping that the NPD
[1833]will obtain 25 to 35 Bundestag seats in September, which, they feel,
[1834]: will make the party more acceptable to right-wing voters in Berlin
[1835]is and enhance NPD chances during .the 1971 Berlin communal electfons.
[1836]Berlin is planning to send volunteer workers to campaign for the NPD 1
[1837]in West Germany, especially -in North. Rhine-Westphalia, the NPD strong- .
[1839]hold. End of Summary. 4 4
[1840]s 1, (Field Comment; In October 1968, the West Berlin NPD had 5
[1841]a approximately 480 0 dues-paying members, According. to a senior party ° 4!
[1842]3 official, more than 100 members have officially dropped their Pi
[1843]-_ . / 2
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[1869]membership and others are dropping out quietly,
[1870]menbership was about 300,)
[1872]: 2. Following the abortive attempt dy the Natienat Democratic
[1873]a Party (NPD) leadership to ferce the BerYin NPD to dissolve itself for
[1874]tactical reasons in October 1968, routine party acttvity resdmed al=
[1875]most immediately, [Lt was characterized by a split between the leader-
[1876]ship. Of ‘the Betlin City (Landesverband) party unit and that of “dis-
[1877]trict (Kee isverband) party units, The former are generally loyal to
[1878]National Party-Chairman Adolf von Thadden and the national leadership
[1879]in Hanover and their broader tactical concepts; while the latter, re=-
[1880]ferred to us the “Loyalists” (Satzungstreuc) defend the létver “ot the
[1881]to Berlin NPD ‘statutes, The Loyalists initially objected primarily to
[1882]Tee “the mechod of the attempted: disSolution, .but the friction with the
[1883]“city Executive ‘Commit tee (Landesvorstand) aéaded ‘by’ Rudolf Kendzia
[1884]_ led ‘to total. mutual. mistiu disloyat statements to the press, and
[1885]efforts. to get. each. other - pelled from ‘the - party: by a party court
[1887]Peo a (Senteasgersent) . area . ae
[1888]ee a Be at a general membership heettrg in Bor LinsqgizpS.-March. 1969,
[1889]‘von’ : Thadderi attempted ‘to. achieve. a truce within the party and ordered
[1891]wo root that. there ibe -no “political organizational activity” until after the
[1892]rr ra: September 1969 parliamentary elections. At this meeting von Thadden
[1893]_ sot ‘approved the scheduling, of a ‘Berlin party convention (L andesparteitag)
[1894]chp oe : *-for 26 ‘April 1969, at which: a new and hopefully more stable city
[1895]Executive Committee was to be elected, . -
[1897]: 4. The 15 March neeting provided an “indieation that the Berlin
[1898]NPD may well stick together under. von Thadden's guidance until 1971,
[1899]in spite of the friction between city and district leadership. Ai-*
[1900]a though the eight “spokesmen ‘Yor the locat leadership, who took the
[1901]floor after Kendzia's situation report and von Thadden's icynote
[1902]: speech, approved the action of the Berlin NPD districts in opposing
[1903]i the self-dissolution of the local party, and no one contradicted them,
[1904]: all but 32-of the 140 members‘present then voted for a-resolution con-
[1905]: demning District Chiefs Johann Ratzek (Schceneberg) and Philipp
[1906]. Goelles (Wilmersdorf), leaders of the Loyalists, for anti-party ac-
[1907]tivity. This vote amounted to a vote of confidence in the tactics of
[1908]the Berlin -City. leadership, and according to members present was due
[1909]solely to von Thadden's presence and influence. In the’ view of these
[1910]- members, a ‘meeting without the attendance of representatives of the
[1911]~ Hanover headquarters would have led to a no-confidence vote “in the -
[1912]Kendzia | leadership. During the meeting, von Thadden also rejected
[1913]Kendzia's "Berlin Program," which called for a softer line on East
[1915]Germany and on German reunification,
[1917]5.. At the 15 March session, left-wing, anti-NPD protestors
[1919]: fo _ “"-assaulted a number of NPD members and forced the NPD twice to change
[1920]. , its meeting site, This leftist action and the obvious fact that the
[1921]militant left has a penetration of the Berlin NPD have had a seri-
[1922]ously dampeniag effect on the NPD's willingness to meet in the open,
[1923]The party is now tentatively planning to hold future meetings on a
[1924]rented excursion boat whose location would not be announced until the
[1926]time of the meeting.
[1928], 6. The Berlin NPD has made strenuous efforts to determine which
[1929]left-wing organizations made up the task force which tried to disrupt
[1930]the 15 March meeting. The Extraparliamentary Opposition (APO) claimed
[1932]j 4 the honor, but the NPD investigation showed derinitely that all but a
[1933]handful of the protestors were an organized group dispatched by the
[1935]Spandau branch of the West Berlin Socialist Unity. Party (SEW) whose
[1937]actions are part of a long-range program of ‘harassment by the East
[1939]Berlin Socialist Unity Party (SED).
[1941]. ‘ 7. -Because of the subsequent possible threats of prohibition
[1942]by the Allies (signalled by a letter from Governing Mayor Klaus
[1943]Schuetz to the Allies asking that’ the NPD in Berlina be banned) and of
[1944]further counter-demonstrations by the militan€ left, on 27 March
[1945]‘von Thaddén wrote a letter to the Berlin City leadership asking that
[1947]S
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[1966]the Berlin party convention be postponed until October 1969, the
[1967]‘normal expiration date. of the term of the present city Executive
[1969](¢ The letter, which
[1970]was read-at several ‘dintriet mectings, also stipulated that the city
[1971]and district organizations weré to restrict themselves to routine
[1972]monthly meetings with no- ‘Speeches and no invited guests until next
[1974]oe a. In'@ ‘tactical | move to promote \party unity, Party ‘chief ~
[1975]: gned.on 28 March, In response to von Thadden's seer
[1976]F umit tender ebip: which otherwise remained
[1978]“Walter Seézen, a member of ‘the na-
[1979]| The. Situation was ticklish because
[1981]Lo Or: othe postponéient motion would fail; there was 8. dis-
[1983]: TRS nett danger ‘that “this could occur, .At the 10 April meeting, the-
[1984]: vo : district leaders grumbled” “but approved the postponement until
[1986]‘ : i 11 October. : : . . i
[1988]9. On Kendzia!'s resignation, Guenther Mensel, & member of the
[1989]Executive Committee, wag selected as, Acting Pz. ty Chief and Speaker
[1990]. _ of the Party “Council until-a new ‘Executive Committee is elected in
[1991]“fF October, “Ménsel, an attorney, was hesitant about accepting the’ “yoh
[1992]ei because of its “possible effect on his practice, and did not commit
[1993]noe himself until the 10 April executive meeting, Mensel's age (62) and
[1995]stability were the main reasons for his selection, The only other
[1996]replacement considered was Guenter Kleinert, also on the Executive
[1997]Committee, whom Kendzia did not trust, Mensel's duties are to con-
[1998]‘sist of calling and chatring pro-forma monthly Executive Committee
[1999]meetings and.of presiding at the party congress next October,
[2001]i 10, Kendzia considers his resignation a temporary tactical re-
[2002]treat caused by disagreements with the NPD national and Berlin dis-
[2003]trict leaders, by von Thadden's public rejection of his “Berlin
[2004]Program," loss of business because of unfavorable publicity, and a
[2005]3 hit-and-run car accident involving a bicyclist on 27 March, Kendzia
[2006]: - promised Mensel to remain active behind the scenes and set up a
[2007]* _vacant office in ‘his place of business as party headquarters, with
[2008]' : desks for himself and Executive Committee members Frank Schwerdt,
[2009]Joachim Rebuschat and Hans Werner Andreas, the de facto heads of the
[2011]Berlin NPD.
[2013]11. Kendzia and a majority of the NPD leaders hope that the fall
[2014]elections will bring some 25 to 35 NPD members into the Bundestag,
[2015]This, they feel, will make the party more acceptable to potential
[2016]right-wing voters in Berlin and thus enable the NPD to make a showing
[2018]_ in che 1971 Berlin communal elections, (Source Comment; The Berlin
[2019]NPD's major problem in Berlin is to keep its membership intact and
[2020]its machinery functioning until 1971, -Whether Kendzia will hold to
[2021]his promise to direct the Berlin NPD from behind the scenes indefi-
[2022]nitely, and whether he will emerge as leader ‘in 1971, are open ques-
[2024]¥ tions, because Kendzia has shown an interest in the current program
[2025]and* policies ‘of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and particularly in
[2026]its “General-Contract" concept, which fits in with his "Berlin
[2028]Program." A close friend of Kendzia’ s, (fnu) Nerchert, resigned from
[2030]the NPD. to protest..its participation in the presidential election in
[2032]Berlin 6n S March and has already made overtures to the FDP.)
[2034]4
[2036]. 12. Since Keadzia! s resignation and the 10 April executive meet=
[2037]. ing, the Berlin City Executive Committee (under Kendzia's behind-the-
[2038]. scenes tutelage) has kept the Berlin NPD functioning and loyal to the -
[2039]Hanover leadership, Executive Committee members (especially Schwerdt,
[2040]Rebuschat and Andreas) have attended annual election meetings in all
[2041]12 party:districts. Through their influence, pro-von Thadden or
[2042]neutral District Executive Committees have been elected in each case.s
[2044]The district officers who led the opposition to the self-dissolution 4
[2045]: 3
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[2058]of the Berlin NPD last fall have been effectively expelled of neu=
[2060]; _ tralized., As of. -early May, Loyalist influence had been greatly re-
[2062]4 duced. Althoush there “is now no Significant internal opposition
[2064]i ‘group, there was a.call pending for formation of an informal “group
[2065]representing both the city organization and the distriecs to propose
[2066]organizational changes. Routine mofithly district: meetiags with
[2067]"guests" from West Germany, whenever possible, are to be continued,
[2069]under the watchful eye of the .pro-tem Executive Committee, until ©
[2071]co. October. when the party convention of the Berlin NPD will elect
[2073]leadership. .
[2075]Schuetz" attenpts ‘to have ‘the XPD banned in Berlin have’
[2077]‘ en taken” ‘seriouslys Loval- party activists are preparing’ to-
[2078]pport ‘the NPD election campaign in West ‘Germany by sending volun-
[2080]workers. “A letter appealing for such help states that ‘the de-
[2082]“Cisive’ eleétoral Campaign ‘which will determine whether or not. the
[2084]NPD. gets into the Bundestag will be waged in ‘North Rhine-Westphalia,
[2086]‘Air -fare and livia: expense subsidies dre being offered to volun-
[2088]: teers who are to- distribute leaflets; put up posters and _ring door- |
[2090]: bells.. (Field Comment: The ‘NPD made tnroads in North Rhine- :
[2092]» Westphalia: “duriag the economic recession of 1965-66, and the NPD a
[2093]“national leadership is count ing heavily on salvaging their foothold
[2095]in the ‘Bie lefeld-Runr area. +) . .
[2097]“14. The main ‘NPD weapons in the national election campaign are’
[2099]a, to be pamphlets. describing the party's election platform, One is¢
[2101]Lhe, to be distributed beiween 1 and 15 June; a follow-up pamphlet, be- :
[2102]~ tween 15 and 30 August; and a third pamphiet on the eve of the elec- .
[2103]tion, Each will be printed in 15,000,000 copies. Distribution will
[2105]be handled by two firms--Ve Lbringer Company and Erdmann Company.
[2109]os
[2110]oy.
[2114]i
[2116]H
[2120]- 15. Ruediger Krauss, head of the NPD's: student organization,
[2121]the National University League (Nationaler Hochschulbund - NHB), -
[2122]has moved from Berlin to Bonn to assume the post of chairman of the
[2124]. Bonn City NPD Executive Committee. Von Thadden plans to-.use the
[2125]tactic of moving: reliable leaders into critical areas after the 2
[2126]elections. For example, he plans to move a Bavarian NPD officer to :
[2127]Berlin and assume the chairmanship of the Berlin NPD, In an attempt
[2128]to obtain legal recognition for the NHB in Berlin, (fnu) von Hindy,
[2130]a Hungarian law student and good friend of Krauss, is to be ap-
[2132]: pointed Krauss" successor,
[2134]-16, Field Dissem: USBER, DCSI/USCOB (Also sent Bonn),
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[2150]weet . ~ wo ele : . ‘Loe
[2151]RET mre
[2152]civ: fest Germany a
[2153]June 1968
[2154]West Gereao Wiaistry of Interior a
[2155]. Bvalusyttion of the Prospects of:
[2156]Baaning the Nstiousl Democratic
[2157]- Party
[2158]“Germany (1 Septexber 1969) HE.) OGA-BIS “
[2159]A mediua-level Went Geruan governracnt off tetal who follows
[2160]; the aclivities of the National Dewocretic Party aod who had’
[2161]: access to the study during his of ficial duties. The isfor~
[2162]mation was extracted yram tae original document and is bte-
[2163]lieved to be an accurate gunnery of ita highlights.
[2164]guneury: In June 1968, the West German Ministry of the Interior
[2166]officials,
[2168]Prepared a basic atudy "of the prospects of banuing the fest German
[2169]Nacional eaocratic Perty (NPD). The sumnury of this study given
[2170]be low describes the major charges which the governseat could bring
[2171]against the NPD, the defeusee the NPD could be expected to arke
[2172]agsinat these charges, and the probadle politicri results which
[2173]weuld follew beth a succeseiul und sn unsuccessiul case against the
[2174]MPD, According to the source, thig study ia still conaidered the
[2175]hagic Interior Kinistry evaluation of the case agafiast the MPD rod
[2176]ja being atudied by senior feceral gevernsent and state (and)
[2178]“End of Summary.
[2180]1. (ie14 Coament: For neveral yeara, West German political
[2182]‘ and goverpucot S ledders | nave debated secklag @ covstitutional court
[2184]ban on the NPD. Qu ‘13 Novewsber 1984, Ernst Beada, Fest Geraun
[2185]Interior Minister, advised Chancellor Kurt Georg EFiestnueer
[2186]that there wag sufzicienot evidence to warrant bringing a suit againet
[2187]the NPD, Kiesinger, bhowdver, cpposed bringing a Pore fad the sub-
[2188]ject becese ewbrotied in Best German politica. On 23 April 1969,
[2190]the Federal Cabinet decided not to acek a court ban of the NPO, at
[2191]least until after the September elections. This decision was
[2192]prompted by evidence thet the NPD was waking no menbersiip gaias
[2194]and: apparently was losing populer support.)
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[2202]2. In June 1968, the Feet Geran Inter lor: Minivery. prepared
[2203]n SO-pege study of Che prospec ty Yor bageneg the NPD ‘waticled
[2204]"“Considerstious Regarding 9 Ban of the KRasagnal Dvdveratic ‘Party.'
[2205]The study. was welh prepsred acd ccrefully written, “It\is stint
[2206]a. écansideved the bagic Liberior “Ministry paper on blk NEY aud is. - ms
[2207]_. being studied by séntor officials ofboth che federal aad suate. | - | Mort ‘|
[2208]soveroments, It ‘avoids | giving. an opintea oa: the prospects ‘of ob *” :
[2209]taining a court decision rgsicet the NED, buc trom the ‘éonteat of
[2210]- the study, it is: clevr that the authors’ believed’ tothe “courts:
[2211]oo would probably reyece A sovernacat proposal” to ba he. NPD.. : . .
[2212]7 s Pld. Commdnt:- If the study is stil} ‘considered urrent, -£t ey ad . o
[2213]. ; unclear hes how it ite with Benda’s November 196s statcicunt: that there
[2214]: Was sudficaent evidence tc abtata 2 ban sgatust ene ~ . There 9:2”
[2215]: have been other reports, however, that che evidénce wis pot as ”
[2216]Clear-cut as Benda would. have had the Chance Llor’ believe. See, for
[2218]example, SGN~3804.)
[2219]3. The ‘study yumeartzed the Case which could be brought
[2220]aguiast the NPB aa follows: ; an .
[2223]a. It could be shown that there was a sinilarity
[2224]between the NPD sud the National Socialiat Gerann Workers
[2225]Party (NSDAP) which has twen out lawed.- :
[2227]b. It could be sryued cust the goals, and parte of
[2228]the parcy plactorm, of the NPD are cnootrary to the pria-
[2229]ciples of a free democratic stare. :
[2231]The study concludes that a sufficiently strony case could be pre~
[2232]sented to prevent the case being toyrowe cut by*the courts without
[2234]o bearing.
[2236]4. The study lists che. following potaia which she NPD could
[2237]be expected Cc use in its defense:
[2239]&, The pavty could prove that ic has given firw Inotrace~
[2240]fhe myots Ste misvecs so. bo engage tu pazdviau oF vialeare,
[2241]b. Tk could show thet a sizeedle aumber of rormer
[2242]NSOAP meabers have been forced out of the party ag part
[2244]of the Selbstreintyung (seli-cieaning) process.
[2246]ce. At could potnt ous many feacures of its progres
[2247]which are in accord with democratic pracciples.
[2249]d. It could chow tnat its elected reprosentutives
[2250]have worked wath other parties and have uot disrupted the
[2251]Lendtage (atate dicts) ned other etected bodies in which
[2252]they participate.
[2253]7
[2255]e. IU sould point out that other political parties
[2256]have many ex-Nazis nod ex~communists ras ambers and could
[2257]claim chat che mayority of the 28,006 NPD aimbera are uot
[2258]opposed to the cuticept of the Federal Republic,
[2260]fF. Tt would charge tnat the government’s charyeus were
[2261]one-aided, unfeirily preseuted, and out of date.
[2263]gy. It would claim that not all of Professor (fou)
[2264]Anrich”*s points were iucluded tn tne party plat~
[2265]form. (Field Comment: Aprich is appsreatly s rightist
[2266]whose proposals — Were gore extrem Chan those incosporsted
[2268]in the party piatfors.)
[2269]It eoutd claim thac the iocreased violvnce
[2271]-" (Vero hun} of the political climate in West Geraany 18
[2272]: : : the fault of the New Left end not of the NPD.
[2274]t.
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[2285]‘5. The. study gtates tbac ic would be very dixsficult~to re-
[2286]fute these Ney déefeases tu court. The governsent vould Bave £o
[2287]~ adeit that Since, eerly 1964 there have been very few stateaents
[2288]maidc by NPD leaders, or incidents coursed by the HPD, which could
[2289]dbevuged to SUGPIE: Be goverament! B CHKE. . Objcetively, tt would . .
[2290]-. have to. be -ndmitted’ taat wany tacidents ol violence in which the 4
[2291]NPD has been tovoived: were initiated: by oppanc nis cf ube party. —
[2293]; 6. ‘The etudy: predicts” the following probable resulee should
[2294]the: goverurcnt wie AEs. ‘Case against whe NPD: oe Bone oo, :
[2296]_ the app Would probably respect the prontbitiea. ;
[2297]re is. ery. WBlikely tont. the NPD would attempt to go uader-
[2298]ground as the tllegal Comiunise Perty of Geraoany (XPD). did. - .
[2300]Tee “ye “NPD rewibers and ayapathizers would oot change their
[2301]‘ . Opinions because of a ban, Wany scuid joie, otter groups
[2302]or parties and continis to work for the ir political Beliefs. Le
[2304]c. NPD aad rightist sympathizers “would beyin a care
[2305]paiga for the baaniag of the new German Coamunist Party:
[2306](DEP) ard other leftist grouge.
[2308]a. A ban of tye NPD would be wed received in foreigs
[2309]countries.
[2311]7. The study conelodeg that Lf the goverosent shoula lose a
[2312]ease ayainet the HPD, Lt would be the result of the lack at valid
[2313]evidence (Beveisschwiorigkciten). fa such an event, the following
[2315]adverse affects vouls occurs
[2317]a. The NPD yould receive a wew impetug and valuable
[2318]publicity.
[2320]b. The policy of Selbstreinigung which hes had some
[2322]success ib keeping forner Nozls out of key positieas vould
[2323]wo, be halted. -
[2325]i . c. Many middle-class persens who sympathize with the
[2327]i - wm", but who bave refrained from open sugport beceruse of
[2329]_ the utigma of being associdted wich a party which could be
[2331]i . declared illegal, wowls join | the Party or becowe active .
[2333]yy supporters,
[2335]- a. The party would undoubtedly attyvact wore seabers,
[2337]i {Ficld Comment: The NPD leadership is known to be soretied
[2338]because’ the party’s acabership nas mot increased signifi-
[2339]cantly during the past 18 wonths.)
[2341]8. Field Dissem: Sabsssy Donn, USBER.
[2343]SEC RE T/MO FORKIGI BDISSTY
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[2347]Be Secret
[2348]: : ; “> No Foreign Disem
[2350]DIRECTORATE OF
[2351]INTELLIGENCE
[2353]WEEKLY s) UMMARY
[2355]Special Report
[2357]West Germany's National Democrats and the Grand Coalition
[2359]Secret
[2361]Ne 919
[2363]_ 61 May 1968”
[2364]. No. 6. 0022768A
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[2368]7 Pe — SECRET ant
[2370]” : Gerhany's _far- srighe. National Democratic Party
[2372]Democrat a(SPD). lost. heavily. This’ outcome in a_ , '
[2373]traditionally liberal and prosperous state appears ;
[2374]to stem in part from the dissat isfaction of many :
[2375]oO ' Socialists and trade unionists in the SPD with , 7
[2376]“ ' their party's cabinet cooperation with the Christian
[2377]“Democrats (CDU). Another factor was the discontent .
[2378]of farmers. and refugees with the policies of the \
[2379]Grand Coalition in Bonn. Concern over student dis-
[2380]_ orders contributed to the NPD gains, but this was . \
[2381]. not as-decisive as some have supposed... Despite -
[2382]these gains, the NPD is unlikely to achieve a :
[2383]growth comparable to that of the Nazi Party in the |
[2384]early 1930s.
[2386]. The outcome in Baden-Wuerttemberg confirmed
[2388]; the belief of many Socialists that their cocvera-
[2390]‘ : tion with the CDU at both the national and state
[2392]‘ level is proving to be unprofitable for the party.
[2394]: : As a result, they have alreacy decided at the state
[2396]Jevel not to renew cabinet coczeration with the
[2398]i CboU in Baden-Wuerttemberg, thus making prospects
[2400]: for the Bonn coalition appear less favorable.
[2401]Nevertheless, SPD leaders in Bonn remain committed
[2402]_to the,.Grand Coalition and sesious instability at
[2404]= the federal ievel seems unlikely. Over the long
[2406]-run the outcome of this lates= election may have
[2408]ee " certain implications nationally, including the ‘
[2410]possibility that Bonn leaders Bay be encouraged
[2412]4s . to take a more nationalist line
[2414]The NPD's Success more than in the last Baden-
[2415]as Waerttemberg state election in
[2416]The West German state elec- 1854, but 15 percent less than
[2417]tions in Baden-Wuerttexberg on in the 1965 federal election.
[2418]23 April breught the far-right
[2419]; National Democratic Party (NPD) Christian Democratic Union
[2420]of, 9,8 percent of the vcte, the (C>z) strength fell slightly to
[2421]: most impressive total it has yet 44. percent (1964: 46.2 per- '
[2422]: attained in any state. About 71 cent), while the Social Demo-~-
[2423]: percent of the voters turned eratic Party (SPB) achieved a
[2424]out, approximately three percent vote of only 29.1 percent (1964:
[2425]t
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[2439]90630 5 68 . ~ .
[2440]37.3 percent). The liberal Free
[2441]Democratic Party (FDP), made a
[2442]slight gain, winning 14.4 percent
[2443]of the vote (1964: 13.1 percent).
[2444]Against the background of last
[2445]October's Bremen elections, in
[2446]which the National Democratic
[2447]Party won what was then a record
[2448]percentage of 8.9, the Baden-
[2449]Wuerttemberg results brought re-
[2450]newed cries of aiarm over the
[2451]dangers of neo-Nazism in the Fed-
[2452]eral Repubiic. More important,
[2453]the results also raised doubts
[2454]as to the future of a coalition
[2455]government by the Christian Dem-
[2456]ocrats and Social Democrats, not
[2457]only in Baden-Wuerttemberg but
[2458]at the-federal government level
[2459]as well.
[2461]Baden-Wuerttemberg: A Test Case
[2463]Baden and Wuerttemberg tra-
[2465]ditionally have been strongholds
[2467]of liberal, nonsocialist democ-
[2468]racy in Germany. In the early
[2469]1930s, the Nazi vote in this
[2471]area was almost always appreci-
[2473]ably lower than elsewhere in
[2474]Germany. The hotbeds of Nazism
[2475]lay in other regions, for ex-
[2477]ample in Franconia, East Prussia,
[2478]~ and. Schleswig-Holstein. :
[2480]“The economic and social pic-
[2481]ture in Baden-Wuerttemberg would
[2482]lead to expectations of ‘stability
[2483]there. The proportion of the
[2484]population. now employed in in-
[2485]dustry -is higher than in any
[2486]other state. The ecoriomy of the ©
[2487]state wag virtually untouched by
[2488]the recent West German recession,
[2489]during which unemployment never
[2490]exceeded one percent. Per. cap-
[2491]ita income is. above average.
[2492]Protestants and Catholics are
[2493]almost evenly balanced in pop-
[2494]ulation, while the proportion of
[2495]protestants in the Federal Re-
[2496]public is slightly higher.
[2498]A few observers correctly
[2499]forecast the outcome, but the
[2500]general expectation was that the
[2501]vote for the National Democratic
[2502]Party would be lower than in
[2503]Bremen. The two major West Ger-
[2504]man polling organizations had
[2505]predicted in March that the NPD
[2506]would receive five percent of the
[2507]vote.
[2509]Federal-level politicians
[2510]had campaigned actively in the
[2511]State. Charcellor Kurt Kiesinger,
[2512]a popular native son, made a
[2513]three-day speaking tour, in which
[2514]he sharply attacked "arrogant,
[2515]thoughtless, and dangerous na-
[2516]tionalism," He stressed this
[2517]theme in the Hohenlohe area,
[2518]where the NPD later received its
[2519]highest vote in the state. Willy
[2520]Brandt also appeared to speak for
[2521]the Social Democrats.
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[2529]™. oe, 4
[2530]JSECRET -
[2532]NPD Representation inv West’ German States
[2534]5.8%, 4 eeate)
[2535]23 April 67
[2537]SCHOESWho.
[2539]- LOWER
[2540]SANONY
[2542]78 (LO sears)
[2543]4 June ‘67
[2545]NORTH REEENES ‘
[2547]NOPSEPHALIA
[2549]7.9% (3 seats)
[2550]6 Now "66
[2552]TEESSE
[2553]6.9% (4 seats) .
[2555]23 Apni ‘07
[2556]RIUNTLAND.
[2558]DALNTINATE
[2560]SAAR
[2562]BADEN. > BAMARIA
[2563]WUERTTEMBERG i
[2565]PSs Sot
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[2572]“, :
[2575]The participation by | na-..
[2577]tional figures reflected a -feél-
[2579]ing in-Bonn that this state elec-
[2580]tion, the last before the 1969
[2581]federal. election, might Anfluence
[2582]national politics. Tho ‘analogy
[2583]to the. federal scene was pointed
[2585]‘up by ‘the existence in Baden-.
[2587]Wuerttemberg of a coalition of
[2588]Christian Democrats and Social
[2589]Democrats, similar to that in-
[2591]Bonn.
[2592]Reaction to, Student Riots
[2594]In looking for explanations
[2596]of the NPD gains, German observ-
[2598]ers have emphasized the public
[2599]reaction ayainst the Easter stu-
[2600]dent rioting, and dissatisfaction
[2601]with the federal grand coalition.
[2602]Conservatives. lean to the former
[2603]explanation, while students and
[2604]trade unionists stress the latter.
[2605]The NPD did not receive less ‘than,
[2606]6 percent in any. electoral dis-
[2608]trict. This suggests that the .
[2609]~sentiment expressed by the vote.
[2611]is widespread, and may extend
[2612]throughout the FRG.
[2614]Reaction to student rioting
[2615]probably contributed something,
[2616]but this aspect seems to have —
[2617]been exaggerated as a factor in
[2618]NPD gains. In Heidelberg, the
[2619]NPD vote rose to 11.9 percent,
[2620]but in three other university
[2621]towns, the party's vote fell.
[2622]below the state average of 9.8
[2623]percent. In industrial Esslingen,
[2624]where there had been two stu-
[2625]dent riots, the NPD only attained
[2626]9 percent. Some voters may have
[2627]been influenced by student dem-
[2628]onstrations to transfer their
[2629]votes from the SPD to the CDU,
[2630]whose spokesmen have generally ad-
[2631]vocated a stern treatment of
[2632]rioters, :
[2634]SECRET a
[2636]At the ‘same’ time, ‘thé ““néw.
[2637]W left". certainly failed to win”
[2638]popular support, The Democratic
[2639]Left, supported by radical stu-
[2640]dents, won only 2. 3 percent in
[2641]the state as a whole, while mak-
[2642]ing better showings -in certain
[2643]university and industrial local-
[2644]ities... While the Democratic
[2645]Left's state-wide average was bet-
[2646]ter’ than the far left had at-
[2647]tained in recent elections under
[2648]other names, it fell below the
[2649]last, low figure gained by the
[2650]Communists before they became
[2651]illegal: 3.2 percent.
[2653]Hostility to the Grand Coalition?
[2655]There is dissatisfaction
[2656]with the coalition within the-
[2657]cou, and it can be. assumed that
[2658]some of the party's right wing ;
[2659]| voted for the National Democrats.
[2660]The Socialists, however, suffered
[2662]« | ope greater loss, Left-of-center
[2663]‘Socialists often complain that
[2665]|
[2666]|
[2667]|
[2669]thc party has compromised its
[2670]principles and lost public favor,
[2671]There is an undercurrent of feel-
[2672]ing in these quarters that the
[2673]party has endangered German democ-
[2674]racy .by abandoning its long-
[2675]time position of opposition and
[2676]entering into collaboration with
[2678]the CDU.
[2680]Although the SPD has pro-~
[2681]vided much of the impetus tothe.
[2682]grand coalition's economic and
[2683]foreign policies, and although
[2684]the coalition in Baden-Nuerttem-
[2685]berg has generally functioned
[2687]i well, dissatisfaction undoubtedly
[2689]exists among idealistic members
[2690]of the left and among tradition-
[2692]} ally class-conscious union: mem-
[2694]bers. itiddle class voters of
[2695]this persuasion probably turned
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[2702]ee en
[2704].to the Free Denocratié Party,
[2705]-which has assumed the role’ of
[2706]‘respectable oppésition. “The:
[2708]we Pete
[2710]Lo ‘SEGRET ° OL,
[2712]connection between :this: left-"
[2713]liberal criticism and the NPD
[2714]gains on. 28 Apri} ‘is not- ~imme~
[2715]diately apparent. “ete
[2717]Some commentators including
[2719]some Socialists ;conclude. that°
[2721]many SPD voters defected to the
[2723]‘NPD. The respected Frankfurter
[2725]Allgemeine Zeitung fudged some
[2726]of the election data to support
[2727]its argument that workers had
[2728]gone over to the NPD, but.a more
[2729]careful analysis has shown | that
[2730]the NPD did indeed win above-av-
[2731]erage support-in some working~
[2732]class neighborhoods.
[2734]Many. old Socialists and
[2735]trade unionists, such as Willi
[2736]Bleicher, the powerful boss of
[2737]the metalworkers in this state,
[2738]are cool to the coalition and.
[2739]hostile to intellectuals, and
[2740]some of them are repelled by an- -
[2741]archic student leftism. Even 30,
[2742]most workers -are unlikely under
[2743]conditions of full employment ‘to.
[2744]cast what they would consider ‘a
[2745]neo-Nazi vote; certainly Bleicher
[2746]would never favor such ‘action.
[2747]SPD electoral losses would seem
[2748]to be due less to defection to
[2749]the NPD than to the failure of
[2750]lower-level SPD functionaries,
[2751]apathetic, orevenhostile toward
[2752]the coalition, to get out’ the
[2753]vote, and to the failure of many
[2754]trade union and normally SPD
[2755]voters to go to the polls,
[2757]In traditionally socialist
[2758]Mannheim, only 58 percent of
[2759]those entitled to vote turned out,
[2760]SPD percentages dropped 14 per-
[2761]cent in one district and 13 per-
[2763]-cént in another. the percentage"
[2764].of NPD. strength rosé to 12.1, --
[2765]_10.9,- and 11.2 in the three city”
[2767]districts, but working class -
[2768]votes would not be needed to pro-
[2769]vide these percentages, espe=
[2771]“cially in the facé of -a low SPD
[2773]tifFnout. These. votes probably
[2774]cama mainly from the CDU, the
[2775]FDP, of from those who had not
[2776]voted before.
[2778]NPD Activity Pays Off
[2780]The NPD organization worked
[2782]hard during the campaign, con-
[2784]ducting more meetings than all
[2785]the other parties put together.
[2786]The party has overcome its former
[2787]inexperience and disunity, and
[2788]is developing into a well-oiled
[2789]political machine. The organ-
[2790]ization Fields speakers and pro-
[2791]vides canned speeches and prop-
[2792]aganda materials to local groups.
[2793]The NPD's heritage is not purely
[2794]Nazi. It encompasses more re-
[2795]spectable antecedents, such ag
[2796]the Deutschnationaler (German
[2797]Nationalists) and other conser-
[2798]vative elements. In the inter-
[2799]ests of avoiding a government
[2800]ban, the National Democratic
[2801]Party shuns blatantly Nazi
[2802]appeals ‘and tactics.
[2804]Adolf von Thadden, the na~-
[2805]tional leader of the NPD, is a
[2806]smooth personality from a Junker
[2807]family who denies charges that
[2808]he was an active Nazi. He seems
[2809]to model himself more on De
[2810]Gaulle than on Hitler. The
[2811]Baden-Wuerttemberg leader of the
[2812]party, Wilhelm Gutmann, is a
[2813]former Nazi. During "the good
[2814]old days," he was Buergermeister
[2815]of Tiengen on the Swiss Lorder,
[2817]‘where he .sponsored anti-Semitic
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[2829]activities in “1938. He refused
[2830]to permit the raising of white
[2831]flags when the Allied forces ar-
[2832]rived in 1945. Despite his past,
[2833]he’ won 15,000 votes in Karlsruhe.
[2834]In one commune in ‘the northern
[2835]end“of the staté, ‘the NPD gained -
[2837]/an absolute majority with 55 per-
[2838]cent of the vote; this was. the:
[2840]home Of an NPD candidate named.
[2841]Valentin ‘Goetz, who had been :;
[2842]voted out ‘as Buergermeister . two
[2843]years before. Le
[2845]The NPD won its greatest
[2846]relative successes in three
[2847]northern districts: Oehringen
[2848](14.8 percent), Crailsheim (14.5
[2849]percent), and Tauberbischofsheim
[2850](14.3 percent). The first two of
[2851]these districts ‘are largely prot-—
[2852]estant; the latter is predomi-
[2853]nantly Catholic. This northern
[2855].area, and especially its Hohen-
[2857]lohe section, is ‘filled with dis-
[2858]satisfied small farmers, who. now
[2859]face Common Market - competition
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[2870]and who have recently suffered
[2871]the’ loss of a- state subsidy ‘on
[2872]milk. Rural dissatisfaction pro-
[2873]vides opportunities for the NPD,
[2874]but ‘this is not a promising base
[2876]_ for a mass movement, .particularly
[2878]sifice the farm population in. the
[2880]“Federal Republic has dropped in
[2882]the last ten years from 20 per-
[2883]cent to 1l percent. Another im-
[2884]portant voting factor in this.
[2886]' northern area is the relatively
[2888]high proportion of refugees, who
[2889]were probably aroused by recent
[2890]Statements by Willy Brandt about
[2891]the Oder-Neisse line and by ‘the
[2892]failure of the CbU to react more
[2893]forcefully against Brandt.
[2895]As was the case in the
[2896]early 1930s, overwhelmingly
[2897]Catholic areas, where the Church
[2898]influences its members politi-
[2899]cally, had the lowest right ex-
[2900]tremist vote. One overwhelm-
[2901]ingly Protestant district,
[2902]Freudenstadt, also produced a
[2904]WILHELM GUTMANN ;
[2906]31 May 68
[2908]14-0000
[2910]AMOS Patna
[2914]eae a a
[2916]low. NPD vote. A postelection
[2918]_ poll of 1967 voters’ in Bromen
[2919],. Showed. that, ‘UALike the | Hitler |
[2920]' movement, ‘the. National: Democrats ~
[2922]go not -yet attract ‘many women
[2923]and youth.- More than two ‘thirds
[2925]~. of the voters ‘for the. party, .
[2927]Were males, and the strongest. .
[2928]participation was in the 45 to
[2930].60 age bracket.
[2932]FDP Gains and Losses
[2934]The FDP profited from its
[2935]position in the opposition. Ralf
[2936]Dahrendorf, a séciologist from
[2937]the University of. Konstanz with
[2938]an international reputation, has
[2939]recently entered the party and
[2940]has assumed a leading role, in-
[2941]fluencing the FOP in a loftward
[2942]direction and attracting left-
[2943]liberal support. In the Stuttgart
[2944]district where he was a candidate,
[2945]the party vote rose by 6 percent.
[2946]On the other hand, the new pat-
[2947]tern is not acceptable to many
[2948]old members of this tradition-
[2949]ally business-oriented party, who
[2950]looking askance at Dahrendorf's
[2951]readiness to debate and discuss
[2952]with Rudi Dutschke and other rad-
[2953]ical students, ‘Two of the three
[2954]districts with heaviest NPD gains
[2955]also showed heavy FDP losses, as
[2956]eid some other former FDP areas
[2957]of strength.
[2959]Perspectives on the Vote
[2961]The over-all picture appears
[2962]te be that while both the Chris-
[2963]tian Democrats and the Frea Demo-
[2964]erats lost to the NPD, they gained
[2965]at the expense ef the Socialists.
[2966]The Socialists suffered from :
[2967]apathy and incurred some loss to
[2968]both the NPD and Democratic Left.
[2969]The NPD probably garnered some
[2971]SECRET
[2973]new and uncommitted votes. It.
[2975]is fortunate for the “SPD leaders
[2976]dn Bonn-that the annual party
[2977]congress came before- the ‘Baden-
[2978]Wierttemberg election. It is
[2979]hardly likely that the congress
[2980]would now defeat a motion with-
[2981]holding. endorsement of the coali-
[2982]tion, as it did by a four-vote
[2983]Margin:in March, Assuming the
[2984]SPD remains faithful to the
[2986]Bonn coalition now, the prospects
[2987]are for further erosion of its
[2988]Strength and for greater diffi-
[2989]culties within its ranks.
[2991]Meanwhile, the NPD probably
[2992]will continue to grow in in=-
[2993]fluence. ‘It now is probably
[2994]stronger in some other areas
[2995]than in Baden-Wuerttemberg. A
[2996]change from proportional rep-
[2997]resentation to single-member... ..
[2998]constituencies, which might have
[3000]o Tauber:
[3001](Mannheim bischulsheim
[3002]Baden-
[3006]Ochringen
[3007]Cralfsheia
[3009]Heilbronn.
[3011]eKarlsruhe
[3013]Plorsheint
[3014]art ITTGART
[3016]“Enslingen
[3017]“Tuchingen
[3020]reudensta oo. Utne
[3022]oFreiburg
[3024]Consta
[3025]Tiengen, e oOnstang
[3027]90671 5.68
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[3035]31 May 68
[3038],, not seem to be warranted.
[3040]ye
[3042]_ sexyed: to block NPD growth, has
[3043]> now ‘become even“ less acceptable
[3044]than before’ to the SPD, which.-
[3046]would have lost three-fifths of
[3047]its eels ayeten seats
[3049]: A ban of- the. NPD en
[3050]unlikely unless’ the party com- |
[3051]mits some flagrant violation of
[3052]_ accepted rules, A Bonn press of-
[3053]| fice spokesman has stated that
[3054]‘the government will. seek a po-
[3055]‘litical debate with the NPD, and
[3056]‘not a-ban. On present form, the
[3057]NPD may get 40 seats in the 1969
[3058]Bundestag elections. An attempt
[3059]to'set a higher minimum per-
[3060]centage of votes (present mini-
[3062]mum: five percent) for Bundestag.
[3064]representation would arouse. .
[3065]violent FPD opposition, and does
[3066]not seem to be under serious con-
[3067]sideration at the moment. It
[3068]would violate German traditton,
[3069]and might produce a reaction in
[3070]favor of the NPN, enabling it
[3072]to overstep even the new margin.
[3074]Although. the growth of
[3075]the NPD is disturbing, alarm does
[3076]In the
[3077]‘early 1930s, Germany suffered
[3078]from depression and high unem-
[3079]ployment, and had bitter memories
[3080]of a recent inflation which wiped
[3081]out savings. Powerful elements
[3082]in the government and society/
[3083]including President von Ninden-
[3084]berg, the army, the courts, and
[3085]heavy industry, were highly re-
[3086]actionary and either cool or hos~
[3087]tile to republican democracy-~as
[3088]were the professors and students.
[3089]Racism was rampant and more or
[3090]less respectable, and unwilling-
[3091]ness to accept defeat in World
[3092]War I provided endless opportu-
[3094]ry
[3096]“ manifestations..
[3098]- velopment.
[3100]bot “SECRET . os
[3102]-nities for deriagoguery. All
[3104]these conditions are: now vir-
[3105]tually absent. “The defeat in
[3106]1945, and subsequent disclosures,
[3107]work to discredit. any real Nazi.
[3108]Moreover, the
[3109]fact that .no other ‘state will
[3110]elect a-newW assembly before the
[3111]1969 federal elections may help
[3112]to prevent a real bandwagon de-~
[3113]It must be emphasized
[3114]that the NPD is still a small
[3115]party, if no longer a mere splin-
[3116]ter group.
[3118]The Coalition Problem
[3120]German observers tend to be
[3121]more worried about the effect of
[3122]the NPD showing on foreign opin-
[3123]ion than about the increase in
[3124]NPD strength itself, and their
[3125]greatest concern is over the pros-
[3126]pects for the grand coalition,
[3127]resulting from the SPD losses.
[3129]A Baden-Wuerttemberg SPD conven-
[3130]tion voted on 18 May against con-
[3131]tinuing the coalition in Stuttgart,
[3132]and the old state SPD leaders
[3133]resigned. This would seem to
[3135]make the prospects for the Bonn
[3136]coalition less favorable.
[3138]At the same time, the FDP
[3139]appears not to be in a mood to
[3140]return to a coalition in either
[3141]Bonn or Stuttgart. Dahrendorf
[3142]has suggested that there might be
[3143]a CDU minority government in the
[3144]State. State CDU leaders may,
[3145]however, prefer to call new elec-
[3146]tions if a coalition cannot Be
[3147]formed. In this evént, they
[3148]would appeal for an absolute ma-
[3149]jority from the voters. If they
[3150]got it and if the NPD vote de-
[3151]clined, this would be encouraging,
[3152]but new elections might also have
[3153]a less favorable outcome.
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[3164]5
[3166]a
[3168]3969 ‘€éderal election:
[3169]. thé pattern'of the 28-:
[3170]‘April éleétion,- the same ‘problems
[3171]i -in-Born, With this .
[3172]‘a breakdown of .the vote,
[3174]' the-FDP ‘and the. SPD together can- ~
[3176]not form ‘a majority, and /a-re-
[3177]fusal “6n_the part of both of
[3178]them to join the CDU means that
[3179]‘the latter cannot organize a ma-"
[3180]‘jority government either--unless'
[3181]the CDU invites NPD'collabora-.
[3182]tion, which it. is far from ready
[3183]to. do. .
[3185]A collapse of the grand
[3186]‘coalition in Bonn either before
[3187]-or after 1969 and a return by:
[3188]the SPD to opposition positions
[3189]would signify more than a passing
[3190]cabinet crisis. In the past,
[3191]parties ‘tended to harden into
[3192]intransigence, committed to par-
[3193]ticular ideological and material
[3194]interests, and undblé to reach
[3195]pragmatic compromises with each
[3196]other. In recent years, West
[3197]German politicidns have tried ‘to
[3198]break with this tradition and
[3199]to work o. the consensus prin-.
[3200]ciple. A failure of these ef- _
[3201]forts would have serious “imp li- .
[3202]- cations. If--as does not Séem-
[3203]likely at present--the three” °
[3204]Major parties were unable to
[3205]form a majority government, this
[3206]might lead to severe instability
[3207]and the discrediting of par-
[3208]liamenctary government.
[3210]Bonn and Weimar
[3211]Many misleading analogies
[3212]have been drawn .between the Bonn
[3213]and Weimar republics. One Weimar
[3214]precedent may help, however, to
[3216]* SECRETD. .
[3218]explain why some observers view -
[3220]the coalition problem seriously.
[3221]In March 1930, another grand
[3222]coalition with SPD participation
[3223]collapsed over the ‘question of
[3225].Cuts in unemployment insurance,
[3227]leading to ‘the formation of a
[3228]conservative majority government
[3229]under Heinrich Bruening.. Bruening
[3230]was later replaced by the reac~-
[3231]tionary Franz von Papen, who in
[3232]turn was followed first by a wire-.
[3233]pulling general, Kurt von Schlei-
[3234]cher, and ‘then by Adolf Hitler.
[3236]The worst aspect of the SPD with-
[3238]' drawal was that it made the par-
[3240]liament ineffective and power-
[3241]less,
[3243]Once minority government was
[3244]embarked on, supported by presi-
[3245]dential prérogatives, there wags
[3246]no effective test for legitimacy
[3248]‘except the will of Hindenburg by
[3250]then susceptible and old. The
[3252]Nazis ultimately came to power,
[3254]not by a majority vote, but through
[3255]the paralysis and impotence of the
[3256]constitutional system and through
[3257]intrigues in the presidential
[3258]palace on the part of those, espea-
[3259]cially Papen and Schleicher, who
[3260]thought they could “use” Nazi
[3262]“mass support.
[3264]In contrast to the 30s,
[3265]the presidential powers now are
[3266]far weaker,* and aside from all
[3267]the other factors inhibiting a
[3268]recurrence, the Weimar precedent
[3269]itself must influence SPD leaders
[3270]in Bonn. They are completely
[3271]dommitted personally to the pres~
[3272]ent coalition. A decision to
[3273]go into opposition is unlikely
[3274]under Brandt and Wehner.
[3276]*The absence vf executive emergency powers is not of course without dangers. In a bitter parliamentary deadlock, an
[3277]illegal assumption of power, perhaps by extragovernmental elements, might be the only way out.
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[3289]SECREF
[3291]~ Another possibility might
[3292]be a ‘left-wing’ withdrawal .from
[3293]the SPD, although the leadership
[3294]for a dissident. faction has yet
[3296]te" emerge. This_might provide
[3297]“a healthy outlet ‘for “criticism
[3299]of the system without’ a turn to
[3301]“minority rule. Unlike the early
[3303]1930s, virtually all West Ger-
[3304]man politicians now would do their
[3305]best to maintain a functioning :
[3306]constitutional system. Real. .
[3307]dangers will probably not arise
[3308]unless, as in‘the late Weimar
[3309]period, the government finds it-
[3310]self confronted with economic
[3312]or political problems which seem
[3313]to defy compromise settlement or
[3314]Yational solution:
[3316]Immediate Prospects
[3318]Assuming that’ the Bonn co-
[3319]alition lasts until the 1969
[3320]elections, its leading members
[3321]may still modify their policies
[3322]somewhat in the light of the
[3323]Baden-Wuerttemberg experience.
[3324]The adverse vote of the refugees
[3325]in the recent election could act
[3326]as a brake on the policy of de-
[3327]tente with Czechoslovakia and
[3328]Poland, although there is ne sign
[3329]ef this as yet. Chancellor Kie-
[3330]singer has attributed NPD gains
[3331]partly to “years of agitation -
[3332]against our own history and against
[3333]healthy self-confidance,"” which
[3334]suggests that he may try to sound
[3335]amore nationalistic note. To
[3337]the extent to which. the results
[3338]continue to be attributed to
[3339]student activities, this will
[3341]‘Strengthen the demand for firm-
[3343]ness. Even before the election,
[3344]Brandt sent a telegram to SPD
[3345]state headquarters, advising that
[3346]speakers should react “completely
[3348]-| hard" against student demonstra-
[3350]tions.
[3352]Although the antistudent re-
[3353]action does not seem to have been
[3354]as important a factor as some have
[3356]‘believed it to be, constant vio-
[3358]lence and provocation on the part
[3359]of the students, accompanied by
[3360]constant press attention, could
[3361]lead to severe official or unof-
[3362]ficial counteraction. This, in
[3363]turn, could bring more scrious
[3364]student violence, verhaps with
[3365]the support of other elements.
[3367]Some matters of student con-
[3368]cern have appeal for others. Thus
[3369]students and many trade unionists
[3370]Oppose emergency laws, and this
[3371]question is again being agitated.
[3372]Because of the Nazi experience,
[3373]there is widespread aversion among
[3374]left-of-center elements to the
[3375]use of force in the name of “or-
[3376]der," however great the provoca-
[3377]tion. But also because of the
[3378]Nazi experience, a really Large
[3379]increase in NPD votes does not
[3380]seem likely in the 1969 election,
[3381]or in an earlier new election in
[3382]Baden-Wuerttemberg, should that
[3383]come to pass. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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[3489]DIRECTORATE OF |
[3490]INTELLIGENCE
[3492]The National Democratic Party in West Germany
[3494]Special Report
[3496]WEEKLY REVIEW
[3498]-_ Secret
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[3531]“THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY: IN WEST GEREANY | ,
[3533]The poor ‘showing of the ultranatilonalistic.
[3534]National Democratic Party (NPD): in recent elections
[3535]in several Wast German states cléarly disproves the
[3536]party's claim of providing an acceptable alternative
[3538]to the policies and programs of the country's maior
[3539]parties. The NPD's failure to, maintain the momentum
[3541]suggested by the successes scored in two state -
[3542]elections last fall.is directly attributable both
[3544]to its own well-publicized interhal dissension ani
[3546]to voter preference for the Christian Democrats and
[3547]Socialists deriving from the image of vigor, and* -
[3548]decisiveness imparted by their “grand coalition*®
[3550]under Chancellor Kiesinger.
[3552]Barring some serious
[3554]reversal in the fortunes of the Kiesinger government--
[3555]which ig unlikely--it is doubtful: that the NPD will
[3556]be any more successful than cther fringe groups have
[3557]been in seeking to rally latent riyght-radical senti-
[3558]ment in Germany and revive it as a dynamic political
[3560]ferce.
[3562]Election Setbacks
[3564]The NPD has claimed wide
[3565]attention both in Germany and
[3566]abroad and led many observers
[3567]to conclude that it was a force
[3568]to be reckoned with, “Within two
[3569]and a half years of its founding
[3570]in November 1964, the party
[3571]elected representatives to the
[3572]legislatures in five of West
[3573]Germany's ten states (11 counting
[3574]West Berlin). In elections this
[3575]April the party was expected to
[3576]obtain close to 10 percent of
[3577]the vote in Rhineland~Palatinate
[3578]and 12 to 15 percent in Schleswig-
[3579]Holstein but actually won only
[3580]four seats in each parliament
[3581]with 6.9 and 5.8 percent of the
[3583]|
[3584]|
[3585]|
[3586]|
[3587]|
[3589]4
[3591]base bastion" of Lower Saxony,
[3593]the NPD's performance was simi-
[3594]larly unimpressive--7 rercent
[3596]of the vote and 10 Lanégtag seats...
[3598]Emphasis by party leaders
[3599]on their success in gaining rep-
[3600]resentation in all the states
[3601]where the party has comzeted
[3602]during the past year has not
[3603]masked their disappointment that
[3604]the NPD's momentum of growth has
[3605]leveled off. The partys failure
[3606]to make a good showing in
[3607]Schleswig-Holstein ang Lower
[3608]Saxony--areas considered particu-
[3609]larly susceptible to nationalist
[3610]appeals--is especially damaging,
[3611]and raises fundamental doubt
[3612]about the party's future pros-
[3614]vote respectively. In the 4 June -pects.
[3615]@élection in the party's "home
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[3625].. : NPD Representation in West German States
[3627]2
[3629]5.82 (4 seas)
[3630]MOM PSIG. J
[3632]PREMEN
[3634]are
[3636]LOWER ~
[3639]Inte,
[3641]MOR TE RHINE
[3643]WESTPHALIA
[3645]7.9% (8 seats)
[3647]6.9% (4 sents)
[3648]HINELAND,
[3650]A PatsnSare oO .
[3652]* SAAR
[3654]7.4% (15 seats)
[3656]- BADEN.
[3658]WUERTTEMBERG
[3660]_ BAVARLA
[3662]40840 6 67
[3664]SECRET
[3666]14.90000
[3668]SECRET
[3670]: Origins: and Early Successes -
[3672]Férmed from ‘the remnants of..
[3673]the-definct German Reich - ‘Party
[3674](DRP)--one of a number -of ultra-
[3675]nationalistic. splinter groups
[3677]_.which have détted the political
[3679]landbcape of postwar Germany=-the
[3680]NPD. quickly established a polit-
[3681]ical apparatus capable of func-~
[3682]tioning throughout the country.
[3683]The new party soon distinguished ©
[3684]itself by its relative success
[3686]in attracting the support of other
[3687]ultranationalistic-elements and a
[3688]variety of political:malcontents.
[3689]Earlier:attemets by other groups
[3690]to unite disparate nationalists
[3691]invariably had foundered on -per-
[3692]sonal rivalries and tactical.dis-
[3693]agreements. Some were. no more
[3694]than platforms tor self~expres-
[3695]sion by leaders: advocating a
[3696]particular set of extremist no-
[3697]tions. Even the most successful,
[3698]the Socialist Reich Party (SRP),
[3699]which at its high water mark
[3700]ebtained 1l percent of the vote
[3701]in the. Lower Saxony Landtag elec-
[3702]tions in/1951, was unable to
[3703]establish effective working rela-
[3704]tions with vival rightist groups
[3705]before itiwas outlawed by the
[3706]West German supreme court in
[3707]1952.
[3709]paring its first year, the
[3710]NPD encountered many of the prob-
[3711]lems experienced by its predeces-
[3712]sors. The party was unable to put
[3713]on an effective campaign for the
[3714]September 1965 national elections
[3715]and obtained only 2 percent of
[3716]the votes--short of the 5-percent
[3717]minimum required for representa-
[3718]tion in the Bundestag. In local
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[3723]|
[3724]4
[3726]elections in’ Bavaria and Schleswig=
[3727]Holstein in March 1966, however, |
[3728]the .NPD showed that -it could com-
[3729]mand pockets of strength. In the
[3730]Bavarian cities of Nuremberg and |
[3731]| Bayreuth, it received between 7
[3732]and 10 percent of the vote and
[3733]elected representatives to the lo-
[3734]Cal governing councils. These
[3735]gains were facilitated by concen-
[3736]trating the party's efforts in
[3737]selected areas such as the Protes-
[3738]tant centers of Middle and Upper
[3739]“Franconia in heavily Catholic
[3740]Bavaria,
[3742]The first clear demonstra-
[3743]tion that the NPD could attract
[3744]more than the ultranationalist
[3745]vote came two weeks later in ~~
[3746]Hamburg, where the party nearly
[3747]doubled its vote as compared with
[3748]the Bundestag election the year
[3749]before. Although the NPD failed
[3750]to elect any deputies, the Chris-
[3751]tian Democrats and the Socialists
[3752]were concerned about its ability
[3753]to secure even 3.9 percent of
[3754]the vote. The threat to the tra-
[3755]ditional third party, the conserva-
[3756]tive Free Democrats (FDP) became
[3757]apparent. The FDP fell a third
[3758]below its 1965 vote and lost 4 of
[3759]its 12 seats in the Hamburg city
[3761]4. council. Profiting from a decline
[3762]‘in the economy which was already
[3764]under way and the increasing pub-
[3765]lic disenchantment with the lead-
[3766]ership of then Chancellor Erhard
[3767]in Bonn, the NPD accelerated both
[3768]its organizational effort and its
[3769]public relations campaign.
[3771]The stage was then set for
[3772]the party's breakthrough in the
[3773]Hesse and Bavaria state elections
[3775]14-0000
[3777]. legislature for the
[3778]its history. © By underlining the
[3780]SECRET . \
[3782]last fallin which it won 7.9 and
[3783]7.4-percent of the vote and
[3784]elected 8 and .15 deputies respec>
[3786]tively. | “In: Bavaria the NPD
[3788]emerged as the on nty small party.
[3789]in ‘the Landtag, ‘causing the -FDP
[3790]to lose its: representation un the
[3791]“first, time’ in
[3793]weakness of ‘the FoP, the-election
[3794]outcome contributed to, the forma-
[3795]tion of the grand cealition gov-
[3797]ernment in Bonn by the Christian
[3799]Democrats and the Socialists.
[3801]For the major parties, the-
[3802]NPD's successes had disturbing
[3803]implications. In contrast to its
[3804]various predecessors, the NPD
[3805]appeared capable of mobilizing
[3806]urban as well as ruzal support
[3807]and of altering the general trend
[3808]long evident in most West German
[3809]elections toward a two-party
[3810]system. In Hesse, the combined
[3811]vote of the Christian Democrats
[3813]and Socialists was a lower per-
[3814]‘centage of the totel vote than in
[3816]the previous election four years
[3817]earlier. Still more significantly,
[3818]however, Hesse and Bavaria pro-
[3819]vided further evidence cf the
[3820]NeD's ability to attract "pro-
[3821]test" votes from various dis-
[3822]affected lower-middle-class ele-
[3823]ments including small businessmen
[3824]and farmers unhappy with their
[3825]lot in. present-day Germany.
[3827]Basic Characterist and
[3829]Sources of Surp
[3831]In spite of its direct
[3832]lineage from the old German
[3833]Reich Party, the NPD has tried
[3834]to dispel the impression among
[3836]“_,
[3838]the general public that it is the
[3839]spiritual heir of Hitler's Na- |
[3841]tional Socialists. The party has
[3842]sought acceptance as a. legitinate
[3844]“political party and insists- that
[3846]it intends to function within the
[3847]established democratic order. .
[3848]Party Spokesmen maintain that it
[3849]differs 1rom the established par~
[3850]ties primarily in its allegedly
[3852]‘superior devotion to the national
[3854]interest, which they accuse the
[3855]governing parties in Bonn of
[3856]having failed to protect. ‘The
[3857]NPD says it offers the voter a
[3858]genuine choice between bankrupt
[3859]policies of the major parties and
[3860]a- return to national morality.
[3862]As much as some NPD support-
[3863]ers might wish to play down the
[3864]party's Nazi associations, how-
[3865]ever, it has been clearly estab-
[3866]lished that the leadership con-
[3867]sists of a nucleus of former
[3868]Nazis,who nave been active in
[3869]neo-Nazi parties throughout the
[3870]postwar years. According to
[3871]police reports, some 2,000 of
[3872]the estimated 25,000 members cf
[3873]the NPD belonged to the Nazi party
[3874]before 1933. This ratio is roughly
[3875]eight times that for the public
[3876]as a whole, The party has lost
[3877]libel suits in which it has chal-
[3878]lenged charges of neo-Nazism.
[3880]The German Interior Ministry
[3882]notes the parallels in political
[3883]outlook and philosophy between
[3885]the NPD and the Nazis, and main-
[3886]tains that the party's activities
[3887]“approach” unconstitutionality.
[3889]In the words of one former party
[3890]member, the NPD is made up of
[3891]people "who have forgotten nothing
[3892]and learned nothing” from Germany's
[3894]past.
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[3918]The Bonn goveriment is gen-
[3919]erally reluctant, however, to ban
[3920]the NPD, believing that it would
[3921]be imprudent to drive the ultra-
[3922]rightists Mnderground... 1, Tf the
[3923]NPD weré to ‘score impressive new.
[3924]successes in future elections,
[3925]chowever, the resulting concern
[3926]in the major parties might’ prompt
[3927]a reconsideration of this policy.
[3928]Interior Minister Luecke favors
[3929]banning the party as soon as
[3930]."enough evidence can be obtained
[3931]to assuré successful court action.
[3932]It is also possible that new °=--
[3933]NPD gains would motivate the
[3934]established parties to make pro-
[3935]posed changes in the electoral
[3937]_law that would make it more dif-
[3939]ficult for the NPD to obtain
[3941]. Bundestag representation.
[3943]Although the NPD pregram is
[3944]strongly reminiscent of Hitlerian
[3945]National Socialism, the party's
[3946]electoral supporters in Hesse
[3947]and Bavaria also include persons
[3948]“tions or any particular suscepti-
[3949]bility to Nazism per se. It has
[3950]managed to attract impulsive
[3951]youngsters, as well as political |
[3952]malcontents of all ages. . Its
[3953]membership includes individuals
[3954]from a broad range of occupations.
[3955]The NPD's special appeal among
[3956]the lower-middle-class, and par-
[3957]ticularly among the small business-
[3958]men and farmers is reinforced by
[3959]the economic squeeze these groups
[3960]are experiencing as a result of
[3961]gevernment economy measures. In
[3962]Hesse and Bavaria, the party did
[3963]especially well in areas noted
[3964]for traditional German nationalism
[3966].and in areas which are predomi-
[3968]nantly Protestant. Many NPD ad-
[3970]‘herents are expellees from the
[3972]territories lost at. the end of
[3973]World Nar II.
[3975], The makeup of the formal.
[3976]NPD membership is not radically
[3977]different in age or occupation —
[3978]group from a.cross section of the
[3979]general public. However, there
[3980]are certain characteristics of
[3981]NPD supporters which set them
[3982]apart from supporters of the
[3983]three major parties. The NPD
[3984]tends to attract a somewhat larger
[3985]number of older persons as well
[3986]as young adults, and the number
[3987]of lower middle class members,
[3988]including pensioners, is dis-
[3989]proportionately large. Formal
[3990]membership among students, how-
[3991]ever, is very small and only 350
[3992]of a total of 244,000 university
[3993]students are on the party rolls..
[3995]There is no evidence that
[3996]the NPD receives significant
[3997]financial support from German
[3998]industrialists. It is, however,
[3999]able to operate in the black.
[4001]The sound state of its finances
[4002]is in part a result of its prac-
[4003]tice of charging admission to its
[4004]rallies. This serves the double
[4005]function of making the rank and
[4006]file feel that they have a stake
[4007]in the party and of making it
[4008]necessary for its opponents to
[4009]pay for the right to heckle., The
[4010]party also derives considerable
[4011]sums from membership dues, sub-
[4012]scriptions to party publications,
[4013]and donations from members and
[4014]sympathizers.
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[4021]dden at Second NPD Congress
[4023]Tha
[4025]: Party leader Von
[4027]June 1966
[4029]at Karlsruhe,
[4031]ion
[4033]acharacteristic cross sect
[4035]NPD audience
[4037]68627 667 CIA
[4039]i
[4041]CRET
[4043]4
[4045]Sh
[4047]14-0000
[4049]SECRET
[4051]Rumors of clandestine fi-
[4052]nancial support from thé, Commu-
[4054]“nists or from sympathizers among
[4056]Nazi emigrants. to: Latin America = :
[4057]ave mot been sontiried.”
[4059]‘Despite NPD claims: of wide~-
[4061]‘spread sympathy in. the West German
[4063]carmed forces, ‘there is no evidence
[4064]‘of this.’ German security offi- .
[4065]cials estimate that no more than
[4067]2 percent of armed forces members
[4068]are card-carrying NPD members.
[4069]‘Since.the NPD is -a-legal political
[4070]organization, military leaders
[4072]are constrained from openly in-
[4073]fluencing members of the armed
[4074]forces to oppose it.
[4076]Many Germans are probably
[4077]reluctant openly to admit their
[4078]support for an organization like
[4079]the NPD. It is significant, how-
[4080]ever, that only 6 percent of
[4081]respondents to a national opinion
[4082]poll in January 1967 indicated a
[4083]preference for the NPD,
[4085]Leadership Problems’ -
[4087]The most notable single
[4088]handicap confronting the NPD is
[4089]the weakness of its leadership.
[4090]None of its leaders possesses any
[4091]great talent or stature. Cer-~
[4092]tainly no individual with Hitler's
[4093]demagogic genius has yet ap~
[4094]peared. ‘The absence of strong
[4095]leadership in what has been called
[4096]a "fuehrer-oriented party" has
[4097]left it divided and weakened by
[4098]factionalism. This was clearly
[4099]demonstrated in March 1967 wher.
[4101]‘then party chairman Fritz Thieien
[4103]and Deputy Chairman Adolf von
[4104]Thadden engaged in a public feud
[4105]which further damaged the party's
[4107]reputation. An outgrowth of long-
[4108]standing personal antagonism, the
[4109]dispute was triggered by Thielen's
[4110]resistance to Von Thadden's at-
[4111]tempted take-over as party chair~
[4112]man in Lower Saxony. Thielen
[4113]claimed that Von Thadden's elec-
[4114]tion to the state chairmanship
[4115]had been illegal and would hurt
[4116]the party's reputation. The par-
[4117]ty’s federal executive, however,
[4118]turned the tables on Thielen and
[4119]not only voted to reinstate Von -
[4120]Thadden but also to drop Thielen
[4121]from the national chairmanship and
[4122]expel him from the party. Thielen
[4123]clung to the helm under a temporary
[4124]court order until finally throwing
[4125]in the sponge in early May with
[4127]an announcement of his formation
[4128]of a new, rival part,, the Na-
[4129]tional Peoples Party (NVP).
[4131]More of an archconservative
[4132]than a neo-Nazi, Thielen was never
[4133]more than a figurehead. Real au-
[4134]thority and leadership--as well as
[4135]ideological gquidance--was provided
[4136]by Von Thadden. Von Thadden is.
[4138]a 45-year-old native of Pomerania,
[4139]a member of a prominent and aris-
[4140]tocratic Prussian family, a number
[4141]of whose members were prominent
[4143]in the anti-Nazi resistance. Al-
[4144]though Von Thadden applied for
[4145]Nazi party membership he appar-
[4146]ently was never formally admitted.
[4147]An ardent nationalist, Von Thadden
[4148]aspires to become a German De
[4149]Gaulle rather than a re-creator of
[4150]the German Reich.
[4152]Other leaders of some promi-
[4153]nence include Otto Hess, party
[4154]propaganda chief, and Waldemar
[4155]Schuetz, editor of the NPD's
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[4162]Nazis.
[4164]3 0 SECRET
[4166]official weekly, ‘Deutsche
[4167]Nachrichten, Both were active
[4169]Thielen's departure: clears
[4170]the way for Von ThaddeA formally
[4171]to take over leadership of the
[4173]NPD. It is doubtful that Thiclen
[4174].has the personal force or follow-.
[4176]ing to organize a party with
[4177]significant strength. The impact
[4178]of the new party on the NPD will
[4179]probably be small since the bulk
[4180]of the NPD membership appears to
[4181]prefer the leadership and ideology
[4182]of the Von Thadden’ group. On
[4184]the other hand, the strengthening
[4185]of extremist tendencies within the
[4186]NPD siqnaled by the triumph of
[4187]Von Thadden may hurt the party's
[4188]interests in the long run. The
[4189]result is also likely to assist
[4191]those actively seeking a formal
[4193]government crackdown on the party.
[4195]Program
[4197]In addition to its leadership
[4198]difficulties, another failing of
[4199]the NPD is its inability as yet to
[4200]offer a clear, positive program
[4201]relevant to existing problems.
[4202]Xenophobic and opportunistic, the
[4203]NPD feeds upon nostalyia for an
[4204]Older German nationalism, discon-
[4205]tent with the existing social or-
[4206]der, and Germany's international
[4207]standing and frustration over the
[4208]fact that reunification remains
[4209]as distant a prospect as ever.
[4211]Its stated objectives are ill de-
[4212]fined, when not deliberately am=
[4213]biguous, and are sometimes incon-
[4214]sistent. Its electoral approach
[4215]is generally: negative and destruc-
[4216]tively critical rather than af-
[4217]firmative. Its principal targets
[4221]include foreign intérests and cul-
[4223]‘ture which undermina old values _
[4224]and "de-Germanize the fatherland."
[4226]It attacks the renunciation by
[4227]those in power’of what the NPD
[4228]regards as justified German ob-
[4229]jectives. It deplores what it’
[4230]considers the miseducation and
[4231]corruption of youth, “crime in the
[4232]streets,” foreign aid, and the
[4234]competition of foreign workers.
[4236]The NPD demands an end to
[4237]German dependence on the US and
[4238]calls for the revival of German
[4239]national consciousness. [Tt at-
[4240]tempts to draw a parallel between
[4241]West German - US relations and
[4242]those between the East German
[4243]regime and the USSR, In order to
[4244]tree Germany from Foreign domina-
[4246]‘tion, NPD spokesmen maintain,
[4248]American "occupation" forces must
[4249]go, although not before the with-
[4250]drawal of Russian troops, which
[4251]the NPD would have occur simultane-
[4252]ously with that of US troops.
[4253]Germany must again become master
[4254]of its Own fate, party leaders in-
[4255]sist, and the “lie” of war guilt
[4256]and war crimes trials must be
[4257]ended and a new German general
[4258]staff created. A key demand is
[4259]that the reunification of Germany
[4260]cannot be limited to uniting West
[4261]and East Germany but must include
[4262]the lands beyond the Oder-Neisse
[4263]border now held by Poland. Al-
[4264]though it does not advocate the
[4265]use of force to achieve this ob-
[4266]jective, the party holds out hope
[4267]that recovery will be possible by
[4268]@ Machiavellian deal of some sert.
[4269]NPD spokesmen at present renounce
[4270]a national nuclear capability for
[4271]Germany.
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[4284]i.
[4287]ry
[4289]SECRET
[4291]The’ party ‘puts forth slogans ©
[4293]"proclaiming "Germany for the Ger-
[4295]mans" and "Europe for the Euro-
[4296]peans." Indeed, ‘the NPD favors
[4298]a united Europe somewhat ‘along the
[4299]lines advocated by De Gaulle,
[4300]Europe, it holds, should be’ com-
[4301]pletely independent of the us,
[4303]and possess its’ own nuclear deter-
[4304]rent. It should be built ona
[4305]Franco-German alliance that smaller
[4306]European countries sooner or later
[4307]would have te join. The NPD would
[4308]welcome the decay of NATO as sig-
[4309]naling the end of sterile policies
[4310]which do not serve Germany's real
[4312]interests.
[4314]In seeking to gain the broad-
[4315]est popular acceptance, the party
[4316]avoids affirming the more extreme
[4317]aspects of Nazi ideology. There:
[4318]is, for example, no obvious anti-
[4319]Semitism in the party program -
[4320]and Jews technically could become
[4321]party members. The private atti-
[4322]tudes of the leadership, however,
[4323]are said to resemble traditional
[4325]‘Nazi anti-Semitism closely. The
[4327]NPD makes vague references, more-
[4329]- over, to the importance of "biood
[4331]ties," rejects evidence relating
[4332]to the Nazi extermination policy,
[4333]makes derogatory references to
[4334]the Jews in the party press, and
[4335]denounces aid to Israel.
[4337]In recent campaigning in
[4338]Lower Saxony, NPD spokesmen
[4339]shifted tactics somewhat by no
[4340]longer stressing issues obviously
[4341]associated with the Nazi period
[4342]such as war guilt and reparations.-
[4343]Instead, they sought to exploit
[4344]current grievances including
[4345]the economic recession, unemploy-
[4346]ment, lack of progress on reuni-
[4348]'
[4350]| fication, and. what they called
[4352]the unreliability of NATO.
[4354]Future Prospects
[4356]The NPD's failure to main-
[4357]tain -the momentum of last fail's
[4358]successes in this year's state
[4359]elections in Schleswig-Holstein,-
[4360]Rhineland- -Palatinate, and Lower
[4361]Saxeny is a serious blow to the
[4362]party's hopes. The squabble
[4363]among the leadership apparently
[4364]reinforced the feeling among un-
[4365]committed elements that casting
[4366]a protest vote for the NPD was
[4367]not worthwhile under present cir-
[4368]cumstances. The widespread dis~
[4369]content among farmers over gov-
[4370]ernment economy measures did not
[4371]result in a significant shift of
[4372]votes to the NPD. Moreover,
[4373]there has been a strony resur-
[4374]gence of general ‘confidence in
[4375]the Bonn government. Although
[4376]the NPD benefited lust Fall from
[4377]the popular dissatisfaction with
[4378]the Erhard government, the grand
[4379]coalition headed by CDU Chancellor
[4380]Kiesinger has displayed vigor and
[4381]decisiveness which has been re-
[4382]warded at the polls.
[4384]Even if the NPD were to fol-
[4385]low its forerunners intn oblivion
[4386]it-would not mark the end of right-
[4387]ist extremism, A portion of the
[4388]German electorate will remain re-
[4389]ceptive to this kind of appeal.
[4390]In the absence of, a party such as
[4391]the NPD, right-wing voters tend
[4392]to give their support to one of
[4393]the insignificant splinter par-
[4394]ties, or to one of the more con-
[4395]servative established parties,
[4396]such as the FDP, when they vote
[4397]at all. :
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[4408]It is possible--although in-
[4409]creasingly- unlikely--that. the NPD
[4410]could turn’ out €o. resemble other
[4411]parties of a national~conserva-
[4413]-tive stamp.. Despite the radical
[4415]views of some of thoir menbers ,
[4416]such groups have. “managed., to, Op--
[4418]festations., ‘The ‘German Party (DP),
[4419]for example, which had been rep-
[4421]resented in several North German
[4423]state legislatures and in the
[4424]Bundestag conducted itself_in a.
[4425]responsible fashion. .-
[4427]The NPD at present draws a
[4428]good deal of this traditional
[4429]right-wing vote from the old Refu-
[4430]gce Purty, the DP, and small con-
[4431]servative regional parties such
[4432]as the Bavarian Party. The total
[4433]extremist vote,’ ‘however, has in-
[4434]creased very little since the
[4435]establishment of the NPD. Es-
[4437]timates of the extent of hard-core -
[4439]ultranationalist sentiment in
[4440]Germany vary between 5 and 15 per-
[4441]cent of the electorate. Under
[4442]present conditions this does not
[4443]constitute a threat to German dem-
[4444]ocratic institutions and is not
[4446]SECRET
[4448]greater than the degree of ex-
[4449]tremist sentiment in-other West-
[4450]ern, European countries.
[4452]Gutlook
[4454]‘Assuming. the .NPD’ survives
[4455]the current period of internal...
[4456]Strife, its potential for further
[4457]growth beyond its present 6- to
[4458]8-percent range appears to be
[4459]limited under conditions now pre-
[4460]vailing in West Germany. The NPD
[4461]is still capable of Capitalizing
[4462]on circumstances which might pre-
[4463]sent themselves as a result of a
[4464]protracted economic recession or
[4465]major political blunders which
[4466]would discredit the present gov-
[4467]ernment leadership. The outcome
[4468]of recent state elections, how-
[4469]ever, tends to confirm that the
[4470]overwhelming majority of German
[4471]voters continues to prefer the
[4472]moderate ,-albett increasingly
[4474].independent and nationalist, pol-
[4476]icies of the major parties and
[4477]the government, and rejects the
[4478]radical alternatives advocated
[4479]by the NPD. (SECRET)
[4481]SECRET
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[4489]14.99000
[4491]pee pee oe
[4493]Secret
[4496]14-0000
[4498]1 Tale material contains information efecting the Rane pnal Defense af the United Mates within the mesning of the Esplonace Laws, Title
[4499]: . a USE Sece 76) ond 96, the Crensmivwe of revelativa of which f any manner to an wneuthoruat recon ts Prohibited | ‘be tow.
[4501]SECRE T
[4502]NO FOREIGN DISSEM
[4504]CONTROL EE D-DISSE
[4506]“f Scountay West Germany : he repoRTNO. —-—-CS- DD-312/ 00003-67
[4508]suwter’ ‘BEV ‘Progran : to Monitor and Counter DATE DISTR. 3 JAN 1967 owe
[4510]the Activitics of the National - ; :
[4511]- Desiocratic Party NO. PAGES 3. , :
[4513]Tyo. > Repgiences |
[4515]'
[4517]nw so . . . + i
[4518]DATE OF : - |
[4520]INFO: = + 23 November 1966 rn . : t
[4522]PLACE & et i
[4524]FIELD REPORT. NO. ‘
[4526]oe DATE ACO. German; "Bonn (2s: November. 1966
[4528]THiS 1S UNEVALUATEO tnroRwatlon SOURCE GRADINGS ARE OFFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT tS FENTATIVE,
[4530]A qualified American. ‘official from a senior official of the
[4531]West Gorman Federal Office for tho Protection of the Con- :
[4532]stitution (BfV).. This official is responsible for monttoring. :
[4533]the” activities ‘of right radical organizations throughout : :
[4534]Wost Germany. The information is probably true.
[4536]» SOURCE
[4538]lM. _(Summary: The West German Federal Office for the Protection
[4539]- of the Constitution (BfV) and its regional affiliates
[4540]: " (LEV) have undertaken @ program to monitor and counter
[4541]_ - .the activities of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
[4542]whe Included in this program are efforts to penetrate the NPD
[4543]at all its levels, to monitor its membership end finances,
[4544]; and to counter its influence, )
[4546]at
[4550]re ved. Report For a number of ‘years. the. BiV has been engaged in
[4551]penctrating and monitoring the activities of right radical
[4552]organizations. Since the establishment of the NPD in, LMS RYO!
[4553]1964,the BfV has made a concerted effort to penetrate it
[4554]at both the national and regional levels. This effort has
[4555]resulted in the recruitment of about 60 sources with access
[4556]_to the NPD organizations at_all levels. In several cases
[4557]. the BfV or LfV have been able ‘to recruit local NPD county .
[4558]: “ chairmen and in six [Cacnder have access to the minutes and :
[4559]. . - files of the Land organizations, The BfV has also penetrated i
[4560]the.national headquarters of the NPD in Hannover. .
[4562]3. Through its penetration of the national organization, the
[4563]BfV has been able to obtain and photograph the entire mem-
[4564]bership rolls, which currently contain about 20,000 names,
[4565]The national list has been augmented by additional member~
[4566]ship applications obtained via ponotrations of the 2. i f
[4568]“5 . Land organizations. The BfV is currently in the process 5
[4569]‘4 of tracing all of these membership applications against 4!
[4570]3 the master Nazi Party menbership files at the American 3
[4571]. . 2°
[4572]; - 1:
[4573]SECRET . ; Gow |
[4575]NO ‘FOREIGN DISSEM /Continued/ | tryimees™
[4577]EGN-3098
[4578]CAVATA-1
[4580]"SEB, CI 2, FI 4, EUR 9, DO/H 1.
[4582]14-00000
[4584]wah hah DISSEN - : :
[4585]..Page 2 €$03--212/00003-67
[4586]controlled, Beriin Pocumant. enter. Although this tracing
[4587]activity han,not boon conpletod and-is bhnidicapped by lack
[4588]of personnel at the Berlin Docunient Center, the BL¥ estinetos
[4589]its current file on the NPD 1s far more accurate than the
[4590]Coo files at the NPD headquarters, Because of its acerss to
[4591]‘ Se ’ the Berlin Dociiment; Center, the BY will. éventually.. have
[4592]‘ , a better estimate of the numker of NPD members who are-
[4593]former Nazi Party menabers than does. the NPD. itself.
[4595]The: ‘Biv! ‘Ys also making a céncerted ‘effort to obtain ‘docu-
[4597]ment’ ‘efforts ‘to do this are. directed. at spotting and recruite
[4599]ing: clerical ‘help who ‘workin’ NPD officés and-have access
[4601]to filés. ‘ Information. in‘the ‘BIV's possession to date,
[4602]‘which. ineludes considérable documentary. evidence regarding
[4604]-——.. finanées; tndicates that the party is not receiving any
[4606]‘substantial’ ‘financial. .ossistance from abroad. . The principal .
[4608]an sources of funds are a6 follows; — .
[4610]jas . The monthly DM 3.7 _ membership dues. For ‘the
[4611]“20, 000 members, this amounts’ to DM 60,000 per month
[4612]or DM. 720,000 a yoar.
[4614]b, Subscription fees for publications.
[4618]~“@, Single donations from financially well-to-do
[4619]members and supporters.
[4621]° . d. Admission fees for political rallies, The Bf¥
[4622]has registered, since May 1966 when the NPD began its
[4623]campaign in Bavaria, a total of more than 2p00 polit-
[4624]ical rallies in Bavaria. Although at times more than
[4625]ss - one. third. of. thuse attending -such rallies were
[4626]; - estimated to be opposed to the NPD, everyone attending
[4627]the rally paid an admission fee. The BLV estimates
[4628]that the NPD has heen able through the above sources
[4629]of income to collect from DM 3,000,000 to DM 4,000,000.
[4630]The LFV are watching this funding quite closely,
[4631]particularly for evidence of financing from Communist
[4632]countries, Thus far they have been unable to sub-
[4633]stantiaté the existence of any such support. Although
[4634]thero inno firm evidence of actual financiel support
[4635]of the NPD trom Communist sources, the BfY¥ is aware
[4636]of an intereat'on the part of the Eastern intellizeace
[4637]services to penetrate the NPD and monitor its activities,
[4639]i
[4641]& At the instigation oi Fredeval Minister of interior Luecke,
[4642]the BfV has undertaken to establish a confidential ell-party
[4643]committec consisting of mempers of the Social Democratic
[4644]Party (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Christian
[4645]Democratic Union (CDU) and the Trade Union Movement (DGB)
[4646]to counter the NPD in Rheinland-Pfalz prior to the upcoming
[4647]elections’ in spring 1467. All of the parties have agreed
[4648]to participate and this activity is moving ahead. Recently
[4649]at a two-day conference chaired by. the BLV in’a village
[4650]on the Mosel River, it was decided not only to counteract
[4652]: NPD. propaganda during the election campaign, but also to
[4653]‘ undertake orientation lectures for all officials in the.
[4654]Rheinland=Pfalz and other local governments who have shown
[4655]NPD leanings. These courses will be launched as soon as
[4656]the campaign gets underway. A similar propaganda and
[4657]ofientation activity-is also being planned for the elections
[4658]‘jn Schleswig-Holstein.in 1967.
[4660]6. The BfV has persuaded the DGB to set up an action group
[4662]5 almed at organizing the Labor movement into countering the 5
[4664]‘ ; 4 . 4
[4665]1? SECRET 2
[4667]=. NO FOREIGN DISSEM 1
[4669]CONTROLLED DISSEM /Continued/
[4671]mentary. evidence on tae NPD‘s sources of incone, The recruite
[4674]14-0000
[4676]rere Ae td Hace
[4678]5
[4679]4
[4680]3.
[4681]2
[4682]t]
[4686]vy ~SSBCRET Ff,
[4687]NO FOREIGN DISSEM
[4688]CONTROLLED DISSEM
[4690]Page 3 ; CSNB-312/00003-67
[4692]influence of the. NPD. The BfV is assisting the DGB in.
[4693]working out methods for the infiltration of workers into
[4694]NPD organizations to report and counteract their influence
[4696]. within factories and workers councils, . The Biv has also
[4697]established contact ‘with the German Industrial Institute
[4699]in Cologne, which. is.'sponsored by the German equivalent of
[4700]the U-S. National- AsSociation of Manufacturers. The Bf¥
[4701]used as an argument with‘ the industrialists the fact that.
[4703]. inéreasing. influence of the NPD in Gernan industry would
[4705]have. a, negative. effect pon foreign trade.” .
[4707]7 The BEV: undertook a,survey ‘ot the election resiilts at ‘the
[4709]village and county level -in. Land Hesse. This. survey showed
[4711]that the NPD had substantial success in: areas containing
[4713].Gernan military. installations. It was further determined
[4714]: "that - -the * “NPD! had ‘considerable appeal amang non-commissioned
[4715], professional soldiers who feel. they have failed to find
[4717]acceptance in the postwar German society. This negative
[4719]attitude has’ been less among Bundeswehr officers and draftees
[4721]than among, non-commissioned officers, who feel themselves under-
[4723]- paid and ‘lacking in social acceptance. The Bf£V¥ has contacted
[4724].the sécurity organizations of the Bundeswehr to under .
[4725]take a‘program of orientation to counter the influence of
[4727].. the NPD within the Bundeswehr.
[4729]Headquarters Comment: CS-311/16288-66 from qa different
[4730]source reported that the President of the West German
[4731]Association of Military Reservists had stated that a
[4732]large percentage of older reserve officers and non-
[4733]commissioned officers had voted for the NPD in the Land
[4734]Hesse election.
[4736]SECRET
[4737]NO FOREIGN DISSEM .
[4738]CONTROLLED DISSE!
[4740]-~NWaw
[4742]oe me oe
[4744]14.90000
[4746]Anlage 1.
[4748]Steilenbdesetzung des Bunce esparteivyorstandes der XPD
[4749]| (Stand: 2.10.1966)
[4754]fo, THTeEEN Priedtich (pric) ged. 25.9.16 in Bremen,
[4755]. “‘wohnhatt: Bremen-ochdnebecs, Srauteichen 19
[4756]+. Beruf: Betonfabrikant
[4758]. Frithere Organisationszureheri,
[4759] Grundungsmi ty zea der CDU, ~
[4760]Mitglied der Bremer Burgerschaften,
[4762], 1957 Mitglied und spdter nandesvorsitzender ‘der
[4764]L "Deutschen Partei" (DP) in Bremen. fos
[4766]“" NSDAP: nicht Mitglied
[4768]sKeits : .
[4770]L. Stelivertreter:
[4772]. GUTMANN, Wilhel ged. 9.6.1900 in Basel,
[4774]- Beruf: Angestellter
[4776]1. Vorsitzender des Landesverbandes Baden-wirttemberg
[4777]der NPD
[4779]Friihere Orranisationssu
[4780]"Gesamtdeutsche Parte."
[4782]SEP HIS),
[4784], _ ehem. Funktionir des sBundesverbandes enen, Internierter=-
[4786]und Entnezifizierungsgeschadigter" (BIB).
[4788]NSDAP: 1.3.1932
[4789]1933 Biirgermeister in Tiengen
[4791]von THADDEN, Adolf, geb. 7.7.1921 in Trieglaff,
[4793]wohnhart: Benthe, Larchenwes 6
[4795]Beruf: Chefredaxteur
[4797]Friihere OrganisationszugehéricKkeit
[4799]49 hitglied der Deutschen secnt 3-partei" (DRP),
[4800]Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages in der Fraktion
[4801]"Nationale Rechte",
[4803]. .
[4805]1950 Mitgl. u. Punktionir der "Deutachen Reichspartei"(DRP),
[4807]1955=1959 Mitglied des niedersichsischen Landtagea.
[4808]NSDAP: 129.1939
[4810]WINTER, Franz Florian, geb. 23.3.1923 in Amberg,
[4811]wohnhaft: fegernsee, Bahnhofstr. 11
[4813]Beruf: Metzgermeister u. Fachredakteur
[4815]1. Vorsitzender des Landesverbandes Bayern der NPD
[4816]Frithere Or anisationszu ehorisxeit:
[4825]' te .
[4827]14-0000 i aetna eras oo xe a
[4828]" EEA EE VMS TORR a WER 9 Reeth 2
[4829]~ - Ea oe adel as te
[4830]H 1 . . Ved BN tery
[4831]a
[4832]Fy
[4834]H
[4836]1
[4838]WER, Otto. Theodor, ged. 31.5. 1906 in Paris,
[4839]wennhart: Brenen-Vegesacx, Gerhard-Rohlfe-Str. 61,
[4840]Beruf: .Kaurnmann
[4842]Vorsitzender des Landesverbandeg Bregen der NPD.
[4847]re . mo, "Deutsche rartel' Di
[4848]io : . Mitglied, der Bremer Burgerschaft
[4850]NSDAP: 1.8. 1951
[4852]| HESS, Otto ‘ged. 19.12.1903 in “Rossdorf,
[4853]wonmnaft: bBissendorf, weidendamn,
[4855]Beruf: Oberregierungsrat a.D. (Jurist), Kaufnoann,
[4857]Paps Frihnere Orveat.-ationssugencrigkeits |.
[4859]ot i Matglied u. cundtionar aer “Deutschen Reichspartei" (DRP),
[4862]: Kreisleiter, Gauinspekteur, Gauredner,
[4864]i 1938 Referent-im 3erichts- und R echtsamt der -
[4866]: obersten SA-Fihruns, SA-Obersturmbannfihrer.
[4868]AMNKER Dr. ‘Karl geb. 22.9:1913 in Theesen,
[4869]Mee east Bielefeld, Paderborner Weg 24 a
[4870]Beruf: Rechtsanwalt und Novar
[4875]NADAP: 1.5.1933
[4877]Wie Raed oak
[4879]SCHUTZ, Malsemar, geb. 9.22.1913 in Dausenau,
[4880]: . wohnnait: Gottingen, Felix-Klein-Str. 4
[4881]3 “ Beruf: Schriftleiter u. Verlagsinhaber
[4883]Friuhere Organisationszusenirigkeits
[4885]NSDAP: 1.11.1936,
[4887]: 19°9 Hintritt in die HJ,
[4889]: : 1934 Adjutant des Gau-Pressechefs,
[4892]‘ Freudc" (KaP),
[4893]! : 1938-1939 Junker der Ordengburg Vogelsang,
[4894]: : /  ° anschlieSend Beaurtragter der NSDAP in Gau Hessen,
[4897]iol. a , SCHNEIMER, Horst-Glinther, geb. 11.2,1913 in Essen,
[4898]: . i wonnnatt: hamburg-Grob-riottbek, Hochrad 7,
[4900]. Beruf: keedereibesitzer
[4902]Vorsitzender des iandesverbandes Hamburg der Ned
[4904]i Frihere Orgarisationszugehdrigkeit: keine
[4906], NSDAP: 1.4.1932 .
[4913]14-00900 ,
[4915]- Yockats. 6, r
[4916]i 24.35.2909 in
[4917]‘ : WOrnnALSS Aavoaneth, Vt aCenannsse. $
[4918]os yr Berud: Recntsaneals unc Notas ‘
[4919]‘ : Frohere Oren. :
[4920]i Mitwvised aer ” 7% rarcea ve) und
[4921]' Mitgiied ages nieiersachsithen Landtages -
[4922]I . + so
[4923]i NODAME nicht M.tgirea i
[4924]i i
[4925]H !
[4926]/ OV, Partewvarsthand:
[4927]; a) grantee Mitvliecers: .
[4928]! i
[4929]i BUAND EG, Anneliese, geo. 7.10.07 in Hargarten/Lothsringon
[4930]; wonnhatt: Heraterc, onzianstr. 7
[4931]; Feunere Crean. nt onnucenorigne. ts
[4934]i
[4935]H .
[4936]: LAUGH, Feber, geb. 20.11.1640 in Lénnhorst,
[4937]: wohnhalt: hunnover, Auf dem Larchenberge 15,
[4938]H Beruf: Gtudent
[4939]i Fruhere Organinationszuzehorickeit: keine
[4940]i tHGnAL: nicht Mitglied
[4942]; MAL os TORN, Eo 1, ceb. 26.9,19CA in Kaufbeuren,
[4943]: Wohnnatt: Grobeaitingen, Bahnhorstr. 45
[4945]Beruf: Aaufwann
[4949]Fruhere Organisationszugehtri
[4952]: NSDAP? 1.8.1950 ,
[4953]1934 Gauwart "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF)
[4955]1936 Leiter der Gauschulungoburg Gau Schwaben
[4956]1937 Reichsschulungsleiter is Amt ftir Technik,Munchen.
[4958]ged. 8.11.1911 in Coesfeld,
[4960]i PRINZ wu SALM, Karl
[4961]fo, wohnhart: reitocheid ti.Disseld., Kahlenbergweg 7
[4971]OE aE™ ore copes
[4974]14-0009,
[4976]NOES 2 FE TE EIT ET I ET I I
[4977]: s ee ° Pe OR SPIER RST OREN
[4978]a : er PER TORY AS CCNY YT NAT A
[4979]' a . oR SB” SOE Gr EET 2 ty
[4981]a
[4983]fs ca
[4985]Gertraals geb..16.2.3937 in Prettin, .
[4986]wehmnarts bunedurse Tnider Techt 1 : .
[4987]Beruf: Hauufrau
[4989]Peohere Orsan natonseucendrigkei ts . ;
[4991]: . _ bandes" Oldendursg :
[4995]NSDAP: 1.9.1938 . Loe
[4997]Senetige
[4999]: ‘a a
[5000]ay.2,1606 in Saarbrucken,
[5002]sev. Lhaced2
[5003]7
[5005]e
[5006]a
[5008]varg, Agel
[5009]oe
[5011]‘ wombaftr osareracken, Endircher Weg 23
[5013]be Beruf: Versacherungseay Soann . ,
[5015]: Vorcitzender aes, Lancesverbandes Saarland der NPD
[5018]NSDAP: 1,.6.1935
[5020]26.10.1914 in Osthofen,
[5021]Mainzer Str. 20
[5023]MA 7, Fritz, seb.
[5024]Wohtnalt:; Qatnoren,
[5029]“Vorsitzender des LV
[5031]Frunere Orranyuatronszucenses
[5033]ne-Mitgiied una Pubsationar
[5035]. SDAP: 1.3.1933
[5036]_ S§-Sturmbannfubrer
[5040]FAEBENDER, Hernrseny ged. 24.5.1899 in Solingen,
[5041]verg 4
[5043]wohnhart: Notnenburg/Fulda, Oberer Haus
[5044]Beruf: Kaufmann
[5046]; Landesverbandes Hessen der NPD
[5048]Yor aiteender tes
[5051]“Tatronaren-Volkspartei” (DNVP)
[5052]des hessischen Landtages,
[5056]' 1946 FDP=Mitglied und Mitglied
[5057]- 1949 Mitglied des Bundestages,
[5058]1955 Ubertritt sur "Deutschen Partei" (DP) u. Mitglied
[5059]der Fraktion der DP in Deutschen Bundestag.
[5062]Austritt erfolgte ia November 1932
[5064]oo KUHNE, Dr. jur. Lothar, ged- 2,1.1908 in Steinbach/Thir.,
[5066]. . YohnhaTt: Hannover, Im Moore 12,
[5067]; Beruf: Kechtsanwalt,
[5068]: Vorsitzender des Landesverbandes Niedersachsen der NPD
[5070]. NSDAP; 1.1°7.1931
[5072]. . 19 Referent in der tparteramtlichen Priifungskonmis-
[5073]sion" ia Stab deg Stellvertreters dea Fubhrero,
[5075]\ 1937 Buro des potschafters vou Ribbentrop, :
[5076]. so-Unteroturmfubrer
[5078]14-0000
[5080]LOBDEN, KarieErnst, ed. 666.1927 in Nagslau/Senhl.,
[5081]wohnhalt: cchieswig, nolonnehweg 31, | .
[5082]Beruf: Bicker und Jugendpfleger .
[5084]“ .. Vorsatzender des Landesverbandes Schleswig-Holatein der NPD
[5086]‘Friihere Organisationszugehirigke ts ,
[5088]DRP-Hitglied und Funktiondr auf Kreisebene.
[5093]|
[5095]V. Amter_ im Priisidium:
[5096]onsabteilung: Adolf v. THADDEN (0.Stellvertreter)
[5100]Organi
[5101]Finangabterlung: Otto Theodor BAOUWSR (s.Prasidium) —
[5103]Rechtsabteilung: Frits WINKELMANN (s.Prasidium)
[5104]Propaganda- u.Schulungsabteiiung? Otto HESS (s.Praisidium)
[5106]Presseabtcilung: Waldemar SCHUTZ (s. Priisidium) -- ----.
[5108]Heferat 3.b.V.: Fritz WINKELMANN (9.Prdsidium)
[5110]Re oe aah won na
[5112]2
[5114]: VWI. Referenten in Parteivorstand:
[5116]f AuGenpolitix:
[5118]|) von THADDEN, Adolf (a. Stellvertreter)
[5119]2 . Innenpolitik:
[5121]: : HEURMANNDURVEN, Benno, ged. 20.35.1916 in Altdtting,
[5122]‘ ' wohnhatt: Munchen, Heckenstaller Str. 178,
[5125]H Mitglied des geschiftsfiinrendea Vorstandes des Landes-
[5126]: verbandes Bayern der NPD,
[5128]Vorsatgender des Bezirksverbandes Oberbayern der NPD.
[5132]NSDAP: 1.1.1938
[5137]' RUDOLPH, Heinz, geb. 7.6.1922 in Elberberg,
[5138]wohnhatt: alein-Ilde 5, ‘
[5139]bert; Burgermeister, Dipl.Laniwirt, Hauptmann d.R.
[5141]fo Referent fiir Agrarfragen in LY Niedersachsen der NPD,
[5142]cs Redner aur Landesebene im LV Niedersachsen der NPD,
[5143]: 1. Vorsitsender 1m Kreisverband Hildesheim der NPD.
[5145]Fruhere Organioationszugehoriskeits:,
[5148]NSDAP: 1.9.1940
[5150]14-0000
[5152]He wm andere 6 tes
[5154]ST ON ENT MPSA
[5156]Wirtachafts-—
[5159]na SA TRAE EE Eee ey Rae I Yasar
[5163]- PAGBENDER, Heinrich (s. Parteivorstand)
[5169](S. Praésidium)
[5171]Jugendfrapen: -
[5173]LOBEL, xarl-Ernst (9. Parteivorstand)
[5177]Kurt, seb. 7.6.1915 in Rippien,
[5179]KNUP PRY
[5180]wonnnaits Neuenhuus, Jahnstr. 2,
[5182]Beruf: Elkektromonteur -
[5186]Grafschatt Bentheim der NPD
[5191]NSDAP
[5193].Prauen- u
[5195]<a aetna raettemattettananae se OLA, -
[5197]WINKELVOSS, Gertraud
[5199]1.5.19350
[5201]nd Familienfracen:
[5203](s. Parteivorstand)
[5207]DEM
[5210]Berut;:.
[5211]2. stellv. Vorsituenaer im LV Nordrhein-Weatf. a.NPD
[5212]Lundesreaner deo LV Wordrhein-Westralen der NPD
[5214]Dr. Dietrich, geb. 19.4.1924 in Duisburg,
[5215]JuLsours-meiderich, Haferacker 13
[5218].
[5220]Friunere Organ .sationgsugendriskeit: nicht bekannt
[5222]NOVARs
[5228]GUTMANN, Wilhelm (3. Stellvertreter)
[5232]'
[5234]“NSDAP:
[5236]ged. 4.7.1934 in cattau,
[5238]NI?TSCHE, Dieter,
[5239]-wohnhaft: Oldenburg, (z.%. Putlos)
[5241]Beruf: Hauptmann der Bundeswehr
[5242]NPD-Stadtrat im Stadtparlament Oldenburg
[5249]atte Eee
[5251]Ah ths aieittae mnateteieaamaywenas aieetaamenraitborta
[5253]a ore.
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[5264]VII. Sonatzre funktionen ig Parteivoratand
[5266]Leiter der Abteilung Kasse:
[5268]‘SCHUTZ, Waldemar (0. Présidium)
[5270]“SGHIMMEHOHK, Dr. Heins, geb. 22.1.1911 4
[5274]. wonnnalt? liannover, nXaimundstr.
[5275]Beruf: Versicherungs-Kaurmann
[5277]pros: eh tS
[5280]Oreunigaticnss
[5281]Aeu una runxtionar.
[5283]ra
[5285]HEDAP: 1.6.1950
[5287]sS-Obersturnbannfuhrer -
[5291]GCHAAKS, Martin, ged. 16.9.192 in Oels/Schles.
[5292]aonnnalt: roré~knsen,
[5294]Berufsiiauptmann a.Bw. a.D.
[5298]MGDARs 1.5.1932
[5300]rehorigkeits
[5304]* in der Finanzabta lung:
[5306]Charlottenstr.
[5308]n Chemnitz,
[5310]an ae
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[5332]Gubil.
[5334]OCHUYZ, vinlaeu.c, geo. J.10.1915 in Dausenau,
[5335]wonnnalts; uottinjen, Felix-niein-str. 4
[5339]DKP - Mityilea und yunktronur
[5341]NSUaPs 1.17.1936,
[5342]Wy29 Lintritt in die itd,
[5343]Wig wu gutunt deg Gau-Pressechefs,
[5344]1927 PFeiswart una yaureferent "Kraft durch
[5345]: freuue" (dF),
[5346]1998 - 19,4 Junker der Ordensourg Vogelsang,
[5347]angcnlieyeng beaulrtragter der NoODaP im Gau Hessen,
[5349]wee
[5351]Jo-Hauptutucmiunrer aeg Walfen-ss.
[5353]von THAUDEN, aaolf, geb. 77.1921 in ‘triegiaff,
[5355]Wohnnalts wunbne, vparcnenweg 6
[5357]Beruf: Uhelredacteur
[5359]Feudhere Orrunisaticnsgucenoripkoits
[5361]949 Matgiaea Ger "“veutachen Kecnts-partei" (DRP),
[5362]fiatglied aes veutychen Bundestages in der Fraktion
[5364]"sitionule Kxecnate",
[5367]partei" (oxre), : -
[5368]1yb5 - 1954 Mitglied: aes niedersachsischen Landtages.
[5372]HSS, Otto, geo. 14.12.1408 in iossaorr,
[5373]wohnmnal bt: Bisbendort, Yeiaendann,
[5374]Berul: Oberregierungsrut a.v. (Jurist), Kaufmann, .
[5376]Frihere Orgunisintiong4zupehoripxeits
[5377]Mitsl. uy Funktionar der “peutscnon Reichspartei" (DRP)
[5379]NSDAP: 1.08.1926
[5380]Kreisleiter, Gauinspekteur, Gauredner,
[5381]1998 efferent im Berichts—- und Rechtsamt der
[5383]obersten: sa-Puhrung,
[5384]SA-Odersturmbannifihrer.
[5386]Hal - vORR, sail, geb. 26.9.1908 in Kaufbeuren,
[5387]Womnnalt Grobuitingen, Bahnhofstr. 45
[5390]rruhere Organisationszugentrigkeits '
[5391]Ute = mitgllea und tunktionar
[5393]NSVAP: 1.8.1990
[5395]1934 Uauwart "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF)
[5397]1926 Leiter der Gouschulungsburg Gau Schwaben
[5399]1997 veicugascnulungsleiter im Amt fiir Technik,
[5400]Ihiinchen .
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[5411]- : - noe ged- '22.1.1911 in Cheanitz, -
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[5415]: Teo. bend .
[5419]‘ . Droog, Ory HanseRernhard,geo. 10.32.1903
[5421]: in rrotzig/Poumern.
[5423]: inkel, Am Osterholz 55
[5425]t . ,
[5427]1 Tessor o.Wv.
[5430]: unisutionss. i:
[5434]i wiudelter der aslay (Gau Ostpreugen)
[5436]: Lotabben-.oisleiter, : .
[5438]£ i mllenbuiru.rer. ‘
[5442]. Redton uer alnertus-Universitat in Konigsberg.
[5444]10.7906 in Bresiau,
[5445]nha, armoldstr. 24
[5447]estar: 1.4. 1952
[5449]UUrt-Baa vannstatt, sPreuergasgse 45
[5450]anwalt
[5452]vr, ged. €2.10.1950 in Greifswald,
[5455]b.11 Tay in Hamburg,
[5456]kampffallee 162
[5458]SEETSEN, Walter, gev-
[5459]wonntiaies, Bremen, Kuleu
[5460]Beruf: Kaufmann .
[5465]>. ‘Sarvs Natglied una Funktionar ~ os
[5466]. - - DRP - Mitglied und Funktionar a Sth,
[5467]" RSDAPRs 1.41950 eS .
[5469], gebs 25.95.1916 in Bremen,
[5470]eck, Hrauteichen 19 ‘ -
[5472]THIELEN, Friedricna
[5475]- Brdnere Oreiniuatione 2uy
[5476]Grunduncegnitys.ea der UMU » .
[5477]Mitglied aer premor: Burgersuchaften,
[5479]1957 Matglied und spaiter Landesvorsitzender der
[5480]-"“" speuatychen Partei" (LP) in Bremen
[5484]i
[5486]i
[5488]H UoSDaAP: nicat Mitglied
[5489]i :
[5490]i BAGIWER, Otto Theotur, ged. 91.59.1906 in Paris,
[5491]‘ WORRMATt? Brenen-Veyeouch, Gerhard-Rohlfa-str. 61
[5494]: "yeutscne carter” (s')
[5495]j Mitgiled ser gremer Birgerschaften.
[5498]j
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[5607]patterns of conflict and understanding. Lawrence, Kansas, 1959.
[5608]284-3lhp.  £183.8.G3R6 DIC.
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[5611]3T4p. 1959."
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[5624]: 58. 2600p. HC206.5+57313 _ ‘DIC. re
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[5712]International Council for Fhilosophy and Eumanistic Studies
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[5891]-DD259.4.86 Dies; DdD259.457 CIA.
[5893]STAHL, WALTER, ed. Tne politica of postwar Germany. New York,
[5894]Praeger for Atlantic-Bruecke, 1963. 4%&p. DpD259.4.88 DIC;
[5896]DD259.4. 872 CIA.
[5898]STERH, FRITZ RICHARD. Cultural despair and the politics of
[5900]discontent; a study of the rise of the "Cermanic” ideology.
[5901]Berkeley, University ‘of California Press, 1961. 367p.
[5902]DD76.872 1961 DIL.
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[5914]Atal Jom PERCIVALE. - The course of. German hisscxys a survey
[5915]* oe . of the developditot of Gormany since 1815. New York, coward-NeCann,
[5916]hoe : 1946, - 230p- DD203. TS 1946 re. 83 .
[5918]GETERS, TATE HAREHS. Me nev Germany and the old Naxts. Sew York,: .
[5919]' Random House, ‘1961, 286p. DD259.2.T% DLCs; DD2S.2.53 CIA i
[5921]HAYER, CHARLES WHEELER. The unquiet Gemans. Hew York, Farper,
[5922]1957. 275p." DD5T.THS DIC.
[5924]EOMOED. .-: Germany in the twentieth century; a political
[5925]and cultural history of the Weimar Republic aud the Hirt Reich.
[5926]Hew York, Praeger, 1956. 2658p. DD232.V413 1956 is; ;
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[5928]VIERECK, PETER RORERT EDWIN, © Metapolitics, the roots of the gact
[5929]minds New York, Capricorn Books, 1961. 36h4p.. (A Capricorn
[5930]Book, CAPA5) — DD253.¥5 1961 DIL. :
[5931]-. WHEELER-BESNETT, JOHN WHEELER,- The nemesis of power. Lonmin,
[5932]Hew York, Macmillan, 1953. 82. DD2N0.W5 DIC; Iaw.w56
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[5934]Revised ed. 1963
[5936]/ WORLRABE, RAYMOND A., and WERNER KRUSCH. The land and ps-gie of
[5937]Germany. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1957. 1168p. DDIT.s6 DIC.
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