Russia Peoples' Labour Party

The Russia Peoples' Labour Party (Russian: Российская народная рабочая партия; Rossiyskaya narodnaya rabochaya partiya, or RTNP), was a short-lived pro-Nazi Russian political party active in Germany between 1941 and 1942. Its leaders were former Red Army commanders and all party activities were overseen by German counter-intelligence (Abwehr).[1][2] Its stated political aims were;

"With the help of the Germans, the Soviet authorities were to be overthrown. Private property was to be restored, and a state with a democratic republican regime was to be established."[1][2]

The party program was published in November 1941 (according to some accounts, on the 7th anniversary of the October Revolution), and was distributed among the prisoners.[1][2]

In August 1941, a Committee for the Struggle Against Bolshevism was established which would form the basis for the RTNP. The party was founded in a German Army prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager), located in Hammelburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria. Internal disagreements plagued the party, and its dissolution occurred almost a year after it was founded. However, the party was quickly reestablished soon after and would retain around 120 members.[1][2] Records are scarce and it is unclear when the party officially ceased to exist.