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With the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, the socialist press was banned, property seized, and the party itself finally outlawed. Thousands of party leaders and functionaries were forced into camps or exile, or put to death. Inside Germany, at least, party activity virtually stopped while World War II was fought to its conclusion. When the nightmare was over, the surviving socialists met to re-establish their party. At the first official conference, Kurt Schumacher was elected party chairman. His political views, evolved in Hitler’s camps, were to guide the party in theory and practice in the postwar years.
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© 1968 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Schellenger, H.K. (1968). Ideological Development in the Postwar Period. In: The SPD in the Bonn Republic: A Socialist Party Modernizes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1041-7_3
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