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 Bogotá 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]
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