"The German National Association of Commercial Employees, also known as the German National Union of Commercial Employees (German: Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband, DHV) was a German nationalist and ...
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anti-Semitic labour union founded in Germany in 1893. It had links with the German Social Party and the Pan-German League.
The DHV was directed against social democracy, had an anti-democratic and anti-liberal ideology and supported the concept of a conservative revolution. It promoted the interests of the merchant class. To prevent the spread of social democratic thoughts, it propagated patriotic and Völkisch mentality. It is considered a proto-fascist or pre-fascist movement. It existed between 1893 and 1933." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.11.2021)