Völkischer Beobachter
In the fall of 1927 the paramilitary organization "Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold" expelled all members belonging to the Old Social Democratic Party, accusing the party of seeking alliances with fascists. At this stage the party began distancing itself from its bourgeois coalition partners, criticizing them from a nationalist angle. It began seeking cooperation with nationalist groups, such as "Der Stahlhelm" and Junge Deutsche Orden. The National Socialist German Workers' Party newspaper "Völkischer Beobachter" began writing positively about the positions of the Old Social Democratic Party. However, "Völkischer Beobachter" expressed concerns regarding the name of the party (which sought to identify with the Marxist roots of the SPD) and the position of the Old Social Democratic Party towards the Jewish population (which the National Socialists found too vague).