Eduard Stadtler Explained

Eduard Stadtler (February 17, 1886 in Hagenau – October 5, 1945 in NKVD special camp Nr. 7) was a German journalist and nationalist politician who formed the Anti-Bolshevist League in 1918.^[1] Stadtler had begun advocating the creation of a "national socialist" dictatorship in 1918.^[2]

Stadtler had been a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) until 1933 when he defected to the Nazi Party weeks prior to the DNVP being dissolved.^[3]

After the Second World War ended, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and died in the NKVD special camp Nr. 7.

External links

• "NKVD special camp Nr. 7 (museum)" managed by the Foundation of Memorials in Brandenburg

Notes and References

1. Joachim C. Fest. Hitler. English Translation edition. Orlando, Florida, US: Harcourt, Inc. 1974. Pp. 123.
2. Gerald D. Feldman. Army, industry, and labor in Germany, 1914-1918. Providence, Rhode Island, US; Oxon, England, UK: Berg Publishers, Inc., 1992. Pp. 529.
3. Hermann Beck. The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light. First Paperback Edition. Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 246.