Left-Extremist Endeavours

Agitation against the
principle of democracy
the German people would be quite forgotten, and added:
"For millions of Germans, the alleged ’liberation’ in reality was
being "freed’ of physical integrity and life, of their possessions,
of their homeland, and of irreplaceable cultural assets. It is
high time that independent experts make a complete and
objective stock-taking of all of these losses, and that
negotiations be taken up about adequate reparation."
(Press release by the REP National Executive Secretariat of
12 February 1999)
The REP defame the democratic rule-of-law state and its institutions
and representatives in order to detract from their reputation
and to shake - or at least aim at shaking - people’s confidence in
the value system of the Basic Law. Thus, in its election platform
for the Landtag elections in Thuringia on 12 September, the
"Bündnis 99" ("Alliance ’99") 12) which is dominated by the REP
alleged that rights anchored in the Basic Law were progressively
and insidiously being invalidated.
According to press reports of January, SCHLIERER accused the
Federal Government and, in particular, the Federal Minister of
the Interior, of having repeatedly pulled off a "top-down coup
d'état" 13) . In a speech given at the Land Party Convention in
Horb-Rexingen (Baden-Wurttemberg) on 8 May, he addressed
the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs as a "self-styled Reich
Minister of War".
In a publication of the "Republican Youth" (RJ), the Federal Republic
of Germany - as a system deserving to be abolished - is
put into the same category with the former German Democratic
Republic (GDR) which had to be opposed:
"There won't be any men like Le Pen and Haider in Germany
as long as this people engages in in-fighting. The people must
again keep together and oppose whatever they cannot agree
to. Also in the GDR, people have marched in the street and
thus brought about the fall of an entire system."
("Jugendreport Saar" ("Saarland Youth Report"), newspaper
for the members of "Republikanische Jugend Saar"
("Saarland Republican Youth"), 2 nd quarter of 1999)
1.2 Organization and Development
In 1999, the REP suffered a further loss of members whose number
dropped to 14,000 (1998: 15,000). The causes would seem to
be - as already in 1998 - the series of defeats in Landtag elections
and in the European elections and the resultant flare-up of
the squabble about the line to be taken by the Party.
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