Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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From the DKP website (only in German, Spanish and Portuguese):
"El DKP se reconstruyó nuevamente en el año 1968 en la RFA porque el Partido Comunista de Alemania -KPD- se ilegalizó en el aņo 1956 hasta el día de hoy. (...) El DKP se [a]sienta en la tradición del KPD, fundado por Rosa Luxemburg y Karl Liebknecht. (...)"Abridged translation: "The DKP was founded in 1968 in West Germany because the KPD, founded by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht [in the late 1910s / early 1920s?], had been banned in 1956."
Santiago Dotor, 2 March 2000
The DKP (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, German Communist Party) was founded in 1968. Although not a direct successor of the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Communist Party of Germany) banned in 1956, the DKP took over many of the members and leading figures of the KPD. In contrast to the KPD, the DKP more or less arranged itself with the political system in Western Germany, thus avoiding being banned as the KPD. The DKP was always an orthodox communist party, i.e. it had strong ties with the SED —the ruling communist party in the German Democratic Republic— as well as with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Thus, it was constantly attacked