German Party (Slovakia)

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German Party
Deutsche Partei
Volksgruppeführer Franz Karmasin
FoundedOctober 8, 1938 (1938-10-08)
Dissolved1945
Preceded by Carpathian German Party
NewspaperGrenzebote, Deutsche Stimmen
Youth wing German Youth
Paramilitary wing Freiwillige Schutzstaffel
Labour wing Arbeitsfront der Volksdeutschen in der Slowakei
Membership (1940)57,000 (claimed)
Ideology Nazism
Slovak Landtag (1938)
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Party flag
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The German Party (German : Deutsche Partei, abbreviated DP) was a Nazi political party active amongst the German minority in Slovakia from 1938 to 1945. [1] [2]

History

The party was formed on October 8, 1938, as a successor to the Carpathian German Party (KdP). [3] [4] Franz Karmasin, a member of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies, led the party, holding the title of Volksgruppeführer . [3] DP functioned as the referent in Slovakia for the German People's Group in Czecho-Slovakia (DVG), the successor organization of the Sudeten German Party founded on October 30, 1938. [3] The party published Grenzbote and Deutschen Stimmen from Bratislava. [2]

Organizationally, DP was modelled after the NSDAP in Germany, following the Führer principle . [4] [5] It used the swastika as its symbol and Horst-Wessel-Lied as its anthem. [4] The DP youth wing was known as 'German Youth' (Deutsche Jugend) and maintained a paramilitary wing called Freiwillige Schutzstaffel . [4] Politically DP strove to foster homogenous Carpathian German communities and to maintain a privileged position for the German community in Slovakia. [6] The party was closely aligned with German foreign policy. [6] The first article of the DP statutes from March 1, 1940 proclaimed that "the German Party [was] representative of the political will of the entire German population in Slovakia". [7] However, not all Germans in Slovakia were happy with the supposed unity party; DP faced resistance from followers of the pro-Hungarian Zipser German Party. [5]

On December 18, 1938, the German Party got two deputies elected to the Slovak Landtag on the unity list of the Hlinka Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity (HSĽS-SSNJ); Karmasin and Josef Steinhübl. [2] [4] In March 1940 the DP politician Sigmund Keil became a member of the Landtag, replacing Gejza Rehák. [2] On November 20, 1941, a fourth DP politician became a Landtag member, as Dr. Adalbert Gabriel was appointed by presidential decree to represent the German community. [2]

By 1940 DP claimed to have 57,000 members organized in 120 local groups. [8] It folded in 1945. [2] [9]

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