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...proceed to the problems created by the SRP. May I first take the liberty and correct some of your figures. The SRP does not hold 19 seats in the legislature but 1 (One) as against 4 of the BHE. When Mr. John J. McCloy says that this party together with some other right-wing parties "create a potential danger to all those that value democratic principles" he is undoubtedly correct. However, it would be a gross underestimation of the democratic forces now at work in Germany, and I am convinced that after a successful restoration of the social and economic...
...SRP grew in strength, promising German supremacy and power. Shortly before the May, 1951 elections, they had become such a threat that Adenauer's government began to crack down. Bonn demanded the dissolution of the SPR Reichfront, a youth organization dissimilar to Hitler's youth groups and SS only in that it did not use the stiff arm salute--in public...
...elections the SRP got 367,000, or 11 percent of the votes cast. This gave professed former Nazis 19 seats in the legislature. This is even more significant when we realize that over 50 percent of the SRP membership was under 35, and that many were not old enough to vote...
...same month the party sent Dr. Frantz Richter as its delegate to an international Fascist meeting in Malo, Sweden. Richter was prominent in the SRP, and was one of the first elected to the national legislature under its aegis. Not until February, 1952, did the government discover that Richter, who had been posing as an expellee from the Sudetenland was really a former Nazi official named Fritz Roesler. Richter-Roesler then lost his legislative immunity and went to jail for forgery of identity papers. The time it took Bonn to catch Roesler is amazing since in 1949 he was fired...
...little over a month before this November's elections, the SRP voluntarily dissolved. By doing so it just beat Adenauer's official ban on the grounds of blatant nazism. The SRP candidates mostly gravitated to the BHE, a fascist party originally organized as an official voice for refugees from East Germany, denazification courts, and lands in which they settled as Nazi colonists...