The Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit (VSBD/PdA) or People's Socialist Movement of Germany/Labour Party was a German

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organization led by

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. Founded in 1971 and banned in 1982, it used a stylized

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on a shield bearing a stylized

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and the

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as its party emblems. At a time when the far-right in Germany was distancing itself from mainstream Nazism, the VSBD/PdA took the lead by supporting

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, the more socialist-leaning version of

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. The ''Junge Front'' (Young Front), a youth movement attached to the party, was also organised. Despite its name, the movement was not a registered party, which allowed the German Minister of the Interior to ban it in 1982 as an organization opposing the

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. Usage of the stylized Celtic cross was outlawed as well unless used in an innocuous context.Isoliertes Verwenden eines stilisierten Keltenkreuzes grundsätzlich strafbar
press release of the Bundesgerichtshof, 14 November 2008. . Soon afterwards, many of its former members founded the Nationalist Front, which can be seen as a successor to the VSBD/PdA.

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