This is one of those historical essays that I occasionally write.
They existed in Germany from the summer of 1924, until the spring of 1929 (before the economic collapse in October).
They were a far-left paramilitary group, under the Communist Party of Germany.
In simple terms....they were the street-fighters and there to project an image. Who they fought? Basically anyone....the police, the SPD Party members (left-of-center) and the far-right.
How many were in the 'club'? Well...it's argued a good bit. The general belief is that it was more than 100,000 members across the nation and mostly in highly urbanized areas.
How they disappeared in 1929? Well....the SPD had a Bundestag vote, and basically voted that they could not exist.
What happened to the RFB members in the 1930s? They were on the list to be arrested by the Nazis. A lot of them in the early-to-mid-30s....ended up in concentration camps, and didn't survive the war. Those who escaped? They made their way to the USSR, and were part of the invasion effort in 1944/1945.
After 1945? Well....these members who survived and were part of the Soviet occupying force ended as East German authorities (the police) and later as actual government leaders.
Were they an eventual threat to the SPD government in the late 1920s? Without any doubt, yes.
Were they an eventual threat to the Nazi government in the 1930s? Without any doubt, yes.
Were they a driving force to the way that the DDR government functioned in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s? Without any doubt, yes.
The oddity that the BLM folks in the US have taken the symbiology....never grasping the history behind it? Well....it's just another odd piece of history that people seem to miss.
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