German Socialist United Front

The German Socialist United Front (German: Deutsche Sozialistische Einheitsfront, DSEF) is a left-wing political organization that operates illegally in the Rhenish Republic and Baden-Württemberg, as well as the ethnically German Saarland region and Alsace-Lorraine in France, and other German-inhabited regions controlled by foreign powers such as Schleswig, Eupen-Malmedy, Memel and the Sudetenland. It seeks to have these regions join the Free Socialist Republic of Germany, and claims to represent the "oppressed proletariat" in said regions. It considers itself to be a resistance group.
The organization functions as the clandestine representative of the both the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the United Social Democratic Party of Germany (VSPD), hence the name "United Front". DSEF publishes a newspaper titled Einheit, which is printed in Germany and smuggled clandestinely into its areas of operation. It has little involvement in parliamentary politics, having only managed to participate in elections in Baden-Württemberg through front parties that were registered in a few constituencies. Its more prominent functions involve organizing protests and strikes, fostering sabotage networks, distributing propaganda, and freeing imprisoned socialists. Among the most notable actions organized by the group was the Blutmai in Baden-Württemberg.
Category:German political organizations