The National Offensive (german: Nationale Offensive; abbreviated NO) was a German

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party, which existed from 3 July 1990 to 22 December 1992. ''Verfassungsschutzbericht'' 1990.

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. ISSN 0177-0357. Pg. 99 It was founded by Michael Swierczek, the former chairman of the

Free German Workers' Party The Free German Workers' Party (german: link=no, Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; abbreviated FAP) was a neo-Nazi political party in Germany. It was outlawed by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1995. History The FAP was founded in 19 ...

(FAP) in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, who became the chairman of the NO, and Carlo Bauer, the president of the NO, during the collapse of the FAP for disappointed - mostly Bavarian - members of that party. ''Verfassungsschutzbericht'' 1991.

. ISSN 0177-0357. Pg. 98-99. The focus of the platform of the NO was its fight against immigrants. It considered the blending of cultures to be

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, and therefore called for the deportation of foreigners, tightening of German asylum laws, and making it more difficult to attain German nationality. The NO was unable to receive enough signatures to participate in the Bavarian ''

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'' elections on 14 October 1990. In February 1991, Swierczek and Christian Malcoci, another NO member, were charged with the continuation of the Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists (ANS/NA), which had been banned in 1983.Profil: Nationale Offensive (NO)
apabiz.de. Retrieved 25 August 2007. By 1991, it reached a membership of around 100, as it was able to recruit members from outside Bavaria. As the party was able to gain more members in Eastern Germany, the membership increased to around 140 by 1992. From Eastern Germany, the party tried to establish contacts to the German-speaking population in

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, in order to establish a state organization there. ''Verfassungsschutzbericht'' 1992.

. ISSN 0177-0357. Pg. 99-101. While the former SS-member Josef Schwammberger was on trial for war crimes from 1991 to 1992, the NO publicly supported him. In 1992, the NO organized a series of lectures with the

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, who had been introduced to the NO by Christian Worch. The party took part in the 1992 ''

'' elections in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, but only received a total of 183 votes, since it was only on the ballot in

Konstanz Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a college town, university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konsta ...

and

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. On 22 December 1992, the NO was banned by the

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, just one day after the ban of the Deutscher Kameradschaftsbund (DKB), and within a month of the bans of the

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(DA) and the Nationalist Front (NF). The then

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, stated that the ban had been passed as the NO was an "aggressive neo-Nazi organization" that had agitated against foreigners, Jews and

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.Germans Ban Third neo-Nazi Group
. United Press International. 1992-12-23. Retrieved 29 August 2007. The residences of about 30 party members were searched and information materials, party documents, and

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s were seized by police. At the time the NO had regional organizations in Bavaria, Berlin-

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, and

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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