Socialist Reich Party

Socialist Reich Party Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands

Leader	Otto Ernst Remer Fritz Dorls
Founded	2 October 1949
Dissolved	12 September 1952; banned 23 October 1952
Preceded by	Black Front
Paramilitary Wing	Reichsfront
Membership	c. 10,000
Ideology	Strasserism Neo-fascism
Political position	Far-right
International affiliation	N/A
Colors	Red, Black

The Socialist Reich Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands) was a West German Strasserist and Neo-fascist political party founded in the aftermath of the World War II in 1949 as an openly Neo-fascist oriented split-off from the national conservative German Right Party (DKP-DRP). The SRP was the first party to be banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1952.

It was established on 2 October 1949 in Hameln by Otto Ernst Remer, a former Wehrmacht major general who had played a vital role in defeating the 20 July plot, the Völkisch author Fritz Dorls and Gerhard Krüger, former leader of the German Student Union, after they had been excluded from the DKP-DRP. The SRP saw itself as legitimate heir of the Nazi Party, most party fellows were former NSDAP members. The foundation was backed by former Luftwaffe Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

The party claimed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was a United States puppet and that Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was the last legitimate President of the German Reich appointed by Adolf Hitler. It denied the existence of the Holocaust, claimed that the United States built the gas ovens of the Dachau concentration camp after the War and that films of concentration camps were faked. The SRP also advocated Europe, led by a reunited German Reich, as a "third force" against both capitalism and communism. It demanded the re-annexation of the former eastern territories of Germany and a "solution of the Jewish question". According to Karl Dietrich Bracher, "SRP propaganda concentrated on a vague 'popular socialism' in which the old National Socialists rediscovered well-worn slogans, and also on a nationalism whose championship of Reich and war was but a thinly disguised continuation of the Lebensraum ideology".