Antifa and Some History

Very few people realize that the Antifa movement that you see on college campuses today.....originally started out in the 1930s in Nazi-Germany.

In the late 1920s....the Nationalists Socialists were the party on the aggressive move in Germany.  It would be wrong to say that the vast number of Germans were lined up and supporting the party.

In this period leading up to the Weimar Republic....before 1919, the SPD Party was the party was on the cutting edge of society....mostly leaning toward unions and common workers.  In 1912, they won around one-third of the votes in the national Bundestag election.  After the Kaiser is sent out, and elections held in 1919....the SPD expands on their vote and gets 38-percent of the votes.  It's safe to say that the left-of-center political groups are winning big (or enough) in 1919.

As you go through the 1920 and 1924 elections....the SPD however....is on a loss-situation.  In 1924, they are only able to get up around 20-percent of the vote.

Between the SPD and the Communist Party in the 1930 election....they received around 38-percent of the vote....against the Nazi Party numbers of 18-percent (2nd place).  Over the next two years....the Nazis double their votes (to 37-percent).  The SPD and Communists together?  36-percent.  Both groups are realizing the oncoming surge and the change in government coming.

This period of 1932 and 1933 is an interesting era.  The Nazis are using Brown-Shirts as thugs on the street....pressing on their agenda and public stance.  For Hitler and the elite....the Brown Shirts by early 1933 are seen as a negative....not a positive.  They are basically cut off by June of 1934, with the 'Night of the Long Knives'.

But before this June 1934 period starts up....the SPD and Communist Party have decided that they need their thug-device, so they create the Antifa (in simple nature, the thugs against the Brown-Shirts).

Some would suggest that the idea came out of the early 1920s in Italy, with the Black-Shirts.  Maybe it's a historical piece where some SPD folks visited Italy and saw a useful tool later in the 1930s.

The general story that is told....is that by the mid-1930s...Antifa continued to exist but it was more of a secretive organization and fearful to some degree of the Nazi use of the police and courts.

As 1945 comes....the Antifa goup emerges as the Americans arrive in Germany.  These are mostly men in their 40s and 50s....who had not been an active part of the military because of their age.

Oddly, the Russians....as they arrive into East Germany....bless off the Antifa folks, and label the political parties under that umbrella.  In this sense, they were supposed to be the 'good guys'.

Modern Antifa?  Even in the DDR days (old East Germany under the Soviet empire).....they were dispatched in various acceptable forms to counter the Nazis.  The claim is often made in the 1980s (before the wall came down)....that Antifa were active in Dresden and countering the Nazi groups that existed then....during the Soviet period.  How the Nazis existed in a highly controlled DDR lifestyle or culture?  Unknown....no one has ever been able to explain this remarkable situation and one has to be skeptical that an actual Nazi front existed in old DDR.

So Antifa comes out of the German SPD (American-style Democratic Party) and the Communist Party?  Yes.  It's the strong-arm thug-like device....built to work like the Brown-Shorts (Germany) or the Black-Shirts (Italy).

So you gaze back over at the 2017 opera being played out in the US.  Antifa (Black-Shirts) versus Nazis.  Same old 1930s German opera being set to the stage.

Who financed the 1930s Antifa?  There wasn't a necessity for much money, but the protests and demonstrations that occurred?  All planned out and orchestrated.

You could even go back to the late 1950s and through the late 1970s....in West Germany, and note the new Antifa were now labeled the Red Army Faction.  Strong-arm tactics....public media orchestrations....thug-like behavior.

Antifa existing in modern Germany today?  Yes....in the form of anti-capitalists (the G-20 Summit in Hamburg back in July is a good example).  Note that police in Hamburg stayed back and let the fires and property damage occur.  Again, an orchestration.