The Democratic Bloc of Parties and Mass Organisations (German: Demokratischer Block der Parteien und Massenorganisationen) was a national popular front of political parties and organizations in Soviet-occupied East Germany and the first years of the German Democratic Republic.

[1] A first draft was on 6 March 1944 on a working session of the exiled Communist Party presented by Wilhelm Florin.

[2] The guidelines developed by the Soviet concept of the future Communist Party saw as a government.

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on 8 May 1945 and the Berlin Declaration of the Commander in Chief of the four victorious powers of 5 June 1945 all political activity was prohibited in all zones of occupation.

After consultation by Anton Ackermann, and Walter Ulbricht Gustav Sobottka on 4 June 1945 in Moscow allowed the Order № 2[3] of 10 of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany in June 1945, the formation and activity of anti-fascist parties[4] in the Soviet Occupation Zone.