Eduard Stadtler (17 February 1886 in Hagenau – 5 October 1945 in NKVD special camp Nr. 7) was a German journalist and nationalist politician who formed the Anti-Bolshevist League in 1918.Joachim C. Fest. Hitler. English Translation edition. Orlando, Florida, US: Harcourt, Inc. 1974. Pp. 123. Stadtler had begun advocating the creation of a "national socialist" dictatorship in 1918.Gerald D. Feldman. Army, industry, and labor in Germany, 1914-1918. Providence, Rhode Island, US; Oxon, England, UK: Berg Publishers, Inc., 1992. Pp. 529.
Stadtler had been a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) until 1933 when he defected to the Nazi Party weeks prior to the DNVP being dissolved.Hermann Beck. The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light. First Paperback Edition. Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 246.
After the Second World War ended, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and died in the NKVD special camp Nr. 7.
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External links "NKVD special camp Nr. 7 (museum)" managed by the Foundation of Memorials in Brandenburg