[1] The group was a successor to the short-lived Nationale Sammlung, itself set up following Kühnen's removal from the Free German Workers' Party due to his homosexuality.
[2] It was constituted as a legal political arm of the Gesinnungsgemeinschaft der Neuen Front (GdNF), Kühnen's more militant neo-nazi organization.
This guise of the DA organized militia training camps in East Berlin and established close links with other groups and with international figures such as Gary Lauck.
This led about eighty members, primarily from the western part of the country, leaving the DA to start the Deutsches Hessen, Nationaler Block, Volkstreue Liste, and Deutscher Weg.
[4] The group was banned in 1992 as were the Nationalist Front and National Offensive[5] following an arson attack on an asylum seekers refuge in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein.