The Strasser Brothers were Gregor (1892-1934) and Otto Strasser (1897-1974). As members of the Nazi Party, they exhorted Adolf Hitler to instigate a revolution that would be socialist as well as nationalist.

Otto Strasser joined the NSDAP in 1925 and Gregor Strasser joined five years earlier in 1920 and became the leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA).

The two were outspoken opponents of Hitler's increasingly close links to big business and capitalism. Gregor was murdered in cold blood during the infamous Night of the Long Knives, whilst Otto left the NSDAP in 1930 and was forced to abandon his young wife and children. Pursued by the SS, he consequently fled to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Bermuda - where he had a spat with H.G. Wells - and then Canada, returning to Germany after the War to establish a German nationalist party based on strong socialist principles. During the 1980s and 1990s the Strasser brothers were extremely influential among UK based ideologues such as Troy Southgate and related groups such as the English Nationalist Movement, National Revolutionary Faction and movements on the European mainland.

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