Free German Workers' Party
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The Free German Workers' Party (German: Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, FAP) is a political party in Germany that has been accused of Neo-Nazism.
The party was founded in 1979 but was largely insignificant until the banning of the Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists in 1983 when Michael Kühnen encouraged members to infiltrate this tiny group. A minor party (around 500 members in 1987) it experienced something of a growth after German reunification and sought, unsuccessfully, an alliance with the NPD[1].
Associated with Strasserism, the party managed to gain some support amongst football hooligans but was damaged by Kühnen's homosexuality, taking a stand against him. The party continued under Friedhelm Busse from 1989 but it lost a number of members to new groups loyal to Kühnen, including the German Alternative (1989) and the National Offensive (1990)[2]. The party is no longer active, although some former members are active in the NPD, others in local Kameradschaften.
[edit] References
- ^ D. Childs, 'The Far Right in Germany Since 1945' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe, 1995, p. 301
- ^ C. T. Husbands, 'Militant Neo-Nazism in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1990s' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe, 1995, p. 329
