[3] Despite the similar name, the Czech "National Socialists" were not affiliated with Nazism or the German Nazi Party.

During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Nazis persecuted (former) party members, who in turn offered resistance against the occupying forces or worked in exile.

The party was founded in 1897 and was led by Václav Klofáč, with support from Jiří Stříbrný and Emil Franke as well.

[citation needed] The party platform relied on the social traditions of Hussitism and Taboritism, but it was also a programme of "collectivizing by means of development, surmounting of class struggle by national discipline, moral rebirth and democracy as the conditions of socialism, a powerful popular army, etc.

Jiří Stříbrný and his supporters were expelled for disagreements with Václav Klofáč and Edvard Beneš.

The expelled Stříbrný faction later cooperated with the fascist movement and National Democratic Party.

[8] Under German occupation, the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party functioned in exile and most of its members were active in the resistance movement.

During the Velvet Revolution in 1989, a significant part of the party participated in the creation of the Civic Forum.

Having fallen well short of returning to parliament and crippled by financial debts, the party has almost disappeared.