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- Otto Strasser was a German political activist who, with his brother Gregor, occupied a leading position in the Nazi Party during its formative period. His leftist leanings and opposition to Adolf Hitler caused his downfall shortly before Hitler’s accession to power.
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Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's more radical wing, whose ideology became known as Strasserism, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction.
Apr 29, 2024 · Otto Strasser was a German political activist who, with his brother Gregor, occupied a leading position in the Nazi Party during its formative period. His leftist leanings and opposition to Adolf Hitler caused his downfall shortly before Hitler’s accession to power.
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May 22, 2015 · Otto Strasser, the younger brother of Gregor, was a leading figure in the early days of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser sided with his brother when it appeared that the Nazi Party might split into two different ideological groups in the immediate aftermath of Adolf Hitler’s imprisonment.
Aug 28, 1974 · Otto Strasser, the early Nazi theoretician, took the words Socialist and Workers in the official party name as seriously as he did National and German that made up the rest.
Otto Strasser, the brother of Gregor Strasser, was born in Bad Windsheim, Germany, on 10th September, 1897. At the age of seventeen he joined the German Army as a volunteer. During the First World War he was wounded on two different occasions. By 1918 he had reached the rank of lieutenant.
Dec 1, 2010 · PRIOR to the outbreak of the Second World War, Otto Strasser was a leading activist in the National-Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Distancing himself from the prevailing ideologies of both capitalism and communism, Strasser famously accused Adolf Hitler of betraying the socio-economic principles of the original Nazi programme and went ...
At first, during his post-Nazi life, Strasser moved around Europe, dodging Nazi assassins everywhere he went. Eventually, Strasser arrived in North America, more precisely, Canada. He spent roughly 12 years there before the West German state reversed the ban on his citizenship instated by Hitler.
