Anti-Nazi Freedom Movement

The Anti-Nazi Freedom Movement (German: Antinationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung, abbreviated ANFB) was a German anti-fascist organization based in Colombia during the Second World War.[1] The group was set up in 1942 by Erich Arendt and Otto Weiland as a united front initiative.[2][3] It was formed at a meeting at Barranquilla airport and the residence of Walter Rosenthal in Barranquilla in March 1942.[4]

ANFB gathered trade unionists, liberal democrats, social democrats and communists, albeit dominated by the latter two groups.[5][2] Leading figures in Bogota were the communist Arendt and the social democratic trade unionist Otto Priller.[5] Another prominent figure was Conrad Togger, a bourgeois opponent to Hitler.[4]

Weiland served as chairman of ANFB.[4] Arendt served as the secretary of ANFB.[6] Walter Rosenthal was the leader of ANFB in Barranquilla on the northern coast.[7] ANFB published Europa Libre ('Free Europe').[8]

ANFB was banned in January 1943, with Colombian authorities charging its members with disloyalty to their host country.[9][4] In November 1943 the Democratic Committee for a Free Germany was founded as a continuation of the ANFB.[4]

References
  1. Society for Exile Studies (1985). Gedanken an Deutschland im Exil und andere Themen. Text + Kritik. p. 152. ISBN 978-3-88377-205-9.
  2. Max Paul Friedman (4 August 2003). Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. Cambridge University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-521-82246-6.
  3. Lexicon Sozialistischer Literatur. Springer-Verlag. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-3-476-03548-6.
  4. Wolfgang Kießling (1984). Exil in Lateinamerika. Reclam. pp. 427, 430–432.
  5. Wolfgang Schumann (1975). Vom Yberfall auf die Sowjetunion bis zur sowjetischen Gegenoffensive bei Stalingrad (Juni 1941 bis November 1942). Pahl-Rugenstein. p. 574. ISBN 978-3-7609-0170-1.
  6. Alisa Douer (1995). Qué lejos está Viena: Latinoamérica como lugar de exilio de escritores y artistas austríacos. Centro de Documentación de la Literatura Austríaca Moderna. p. 94. ISBN 978-3-900467-44-9.
  7. Suzanne Shipley Toliver (1 January 1984). Exile and the Elemental in the Poetry of Erich Arendt. P. Lang Pub. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8204-0081-5.
  8. Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss; Dieter Marc Schneider; Louise Forsyth (10 November 2011). Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben. Walter de Gruyter. p. 49. ISBN 978-3-11-097028-9.
  9. Wolfgang Kiessling (1974). Alemania Libre in Mexiko. Akademie-Verlag. pp. 164–165.
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