Deutsche Reichspartei

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The Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP) was a nationalist, far-right, and later neo-Nazi political party in West Germany. It was founded in 1950 from the German Right Party (German: Deutsche Rechtspartei), which had been set up in Lower Saxony in 1946 and had five members in the first Bundestag, and from which it took the name. In the second Bundestag election (1953), the DRP got 1.1% of the votes. A certain success and only major breakthrough came in the 1959 Rhineland-Palatinate regional election, when it got 5.1% of the votes and sent a deputy to the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. Prior to its 1952 turn towards explicit neo-Nazism, the DRP advocated German nationalism, pan-Germanism and support of a new Reich, and pan-European nationalism. An anti-communist, antisemitic, and anti-socialist party, its criticism of capitalism was reflected in economic antisemitic terms rather than socialism, in addition to racial antisemitism. When the openly neo-Nazi-oriented Socialist Reich Party (SRP) was...

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