February 20, 1952

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Martin Antonenko

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A member of parliament is arrested in the plenary hall during the current Bundestag session!


On February 20, 1952, something happened in the middle of a plenary hall in the German Bundestag that had never happened before and since:

The MP Dr. Franz Richter...



...of the right-wing extremist "Socialist Reich Party" (SRP) is arrested on suspicion of being someone completely different in reality, namely the former regional head of the NSDAP in Saxony, Fritz Rößler (in the background)...:



The suspicion soon proves to be correct:

Richter/Rößler had faked his own death in 1945 to avoid being pursued by the Soviet secret service "Smersch", which would certainly have hanged him!

In the west he started a new career under his invented alias name.

With the forged personal details (he claimed to come from the Sudetenland, to have been bombed out and no longer have any papers), Rößler/Richter entered the Lower Saxony school service in 1945, from which he was fired on May 20, 1949 after right-wing extremist statements .

After that, the incorrigible Nazi devoted himself to politics. He joined the extreme right-wing "German Conservative Party - German Right-Wing Party" (DKP-DRP) and - supported by the reactionary "Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft", who believed him to be one of their own - successfully ran for the German Bundestag in the federal elections of 1949 and became one of the five MPs of the party.

In the Bundestag, Richter/Rößler was then a keen right-wing extremist pulling the strings: in 1950 he was involved in the merger of the DKP-DRP and NDP to form the "German Reich Party" - and lost the fight for party leadership against NPD member Adolf von Thadden.

In 1950 he switched to an even more right-wing organization, the "Socialist Reich Party", which saw itself as the true heirs of the NSdAP ideology...:





In the "SRP" - apart from Rößler/Richter - only old and indomitable Nazis set the tone:

Otto Ernst Remer





...who crushed the July 20, 1944 uprising was one of the party's founders, the well-known Nazi pilot and fanatical Hitler supporter Hanns-Ulrich Rudel (left)...





... waws one of their financiers, the party program was based "essentially on that of the NSDAP, including open anti-Semitism"...



...as stated by the Federal Constitutional Court, which banned the brown party on May 4, 1951, cashed in without replacement their mandates (in the Bundestag and in the state parliaments of Bremen and Lower Saxony), confiscated party assets and forbade the 40,000 members to set up any substitute organizations!



Until the party was banned, however, the member of parliament Rößler/Richter repeatedly attracted attention with right-wing extremist blunders that he was expelled for three days of sittings on January 10, 1952 by Bundestag Vice President Hermann Schäfer for unparliamentary behavior.

As early as 1949 he vehemently demanded a "general amnesty" for all convicted Nazi criminals.

Then the arrest.

On May 2, 1952, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Bonn Regional Court for forgery and other offenses and lost his seat as a member of parliament with effect from February 21, 1952.

After that, the zealous Nazi became quieter, but he occasionally spoke at right-wing extremist congresses - mostly abroad.

Then in 1957 he gathered to his "Führer" to hell.


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