[1][2] Some factions and members in the KPD and KAPD, who rejected the Treaty of Versailles, were ready to align themselves with dissident nationalist groups in the German army in order to garner more support.
Paetel explicitly engaged in this strategy, stating the goal of his organizations, first the Arbeitsring junge Front, and later the Group of Social Revolutionary Nationalists, to bring together radicals of left and right in pursuit of a "third way" between the NSDAP and the KPD, encompassing both nationalism and socialist economics.
"[8] The Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (1999–2008) was founded with the explicit aim of uniting the political left and right via the Querfront strategy, wanting to eliminate differences between the two sides and serve as a "Discussion and combat forum on the basis of the collective commitment to Volk [nation] and homeland".
Despite this overall failure however, the Berlin sector of the organization led by Michael Koth, a former communist activist who lead his own Querfront group before the KDS known as the Workers' Party of Germany (PdAD), was said to have a far more national bolshevik lean, taking influences from both Juche and the former SED.
[13] David Begrich however argued in the newspaper taz, that the term was misused in the situation since, while the left and right had cooperated, their generally opposing ideals remained separate and didn't combine or move towards approaching each other.