Anti-Nazi Freedom Movement

The Anti-Nazi Freedom Movement ({{langx|de|Antinationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung}}, abbreviated ANFB) was a German anti-fascist organization based in Colombia during the Second World War.{{cite book|author=Society for Exile Studies|title=Gedanken an Deutschland im Exil und andere Themen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3mdFAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Text + Kritik|isbn=978-3-88377-205-9|page=152}} The group was set up in 1942 by Erich Arendt and Otto Weiland as a united front initiative.{{cite book|title=Lexicon Sozialistischer Literatur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ty3DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-476-03548-6|pages=39–}} It was formed at a meeting at Barranquilla airport and the residence of Walter Rosenthal in Barranquilla in March 1942.

ANFB gathered trade unionists, liberal democrats, social democrats and communists, albeit dominated by the latter two groups.{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Schumann|title=Vom Yberfall auf die Sowjetunion bis zur sowjetischen Gegenoffensive bei Stalingrad (Juni 1941 bis November 1942)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXDzAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Pahl-Rugenstein|isbn=978-3-7609-0170-1|page=574}}{{cite book|author=Max Paul Friedman|title=Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYeYaDs1xR4C&pg=PA71|date=4 August 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-82246-6|page=71}} Leading figures in Bogota were the communist Arendt and the social democratic trade unionist Otto Priller. Another prominent figure was Conrad Togger, a bourgeois opponent to Hitler.

Weiland served as chairman of ANFB. Arendt served as the secretary of ANFB.{{cite book|author=Alisa Douer|title=Qué lejos está Viena: Latinoamérica como lugar de exilio de escritores y artistas austríacos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8p5AAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Centro de Documentación de la Literatura Austríaca Moderna|isbn=978-3-900467-44-9|page=94}} Walter Rosenthal was the leader of ANFB in Barranquilla on the northern coast.{{cite book|author=Suzanne Shipley Toliver|title=Exile and the Elemental in the Poetry of Erich Arendt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4FJAAAAYAAJ|date=1 January 1984|publisher=P. Lang Pub.|isbn=978-0-8204-0081-5|page=13}} ANFB published Europa Libre ('Free Europe').{{cite book|author1=Werner Röder|author2=Herbert A. Strauss|author3=Dieter Marc Schneider|author4=Louise Forsyth|title=Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mt6c3oFVBz0C&pg=PA49|date=10 November 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-097028-9|page=49}}

ANFB was banned in January 1943, with Colombian authorities charging its members with disloyalty to their host country.{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Kiessling|title=Alemania Libre in Mexiko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZUjAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Akademie-Verlag|pages=164–165}}{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Kießling|title=Exil in Lateinamerika|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6XbAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Reclam|pages=427, 430–432}} In November 1943 the Democratic Committee for a Free Germany was founded as a continuation of the ANFB.