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Otto Strasser, (born Sept. 10, 1897, Windsheim, Ger.—died Aug. 27, 1974, Munich, W.Ger. [now in Germany]), German political activist who, with his brother Gregor, occupied a leading position in the Nazi Party during its formative period.

Otto Strasser, who opposed on strategic grounds the views of Adolf Hitler, was expelled from the Nazi Party in 1930 and entered exile in Czechoslovakia, while Gregor Strasser was murdered in Nazi Germany on 30 June 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives, a violent operation against many of Hitler's opponents, including the Strasserist ...

MUNICH, West Germany, Aug. 27 (AP)—Otto Strasser, a prominent Nazi spokesman who broke with Hitler over party ideology, died today in Munich. He was 76 years old.

Relates to the early lives of the brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser, their early prominence in the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, the development of differences between them and Adolf Hitler, the assassination of Gregor Strasser in 1934, and the anti-Nazi activities and later life of Otto Strasser.

Otto Strasser war das mittlere von fünf Kindern des bayerischen Juristen und Staatsbeamten Peter Strasser (1855–1928) und seiner Ehefrau Pauline Strobel (1873–1943). Er trat im August 1914 als 17-jähriger Kriegsfreiwilliger in die Bayerische Armee ein und wurde von der Münchner Illustrierten als „jüngster Kriegsfreiwilliger Bayerns ...

After the German invasion of France, Otto Strasser fled head over heels through France but did not manage to get to England. He instead got down to Portugal, and the English later helped him to safety in Canada. Strasser later helped the Allies in their propaganda war against Germany.

Otto Strasser who had earlier left the party and formed the Black Hand (intended to draw support from the Nazis but failed) had now emigrated, Gregor Strasser had been killed along many with others in the purge, and Goebbels despite what ideological thoughts he had was fanatically bound to the Hitler.

Otto Strasser, the brother of Gregor Strasser, was born in Bad Windsheim, Germany, on 10th September, 1897. At the age of seventeen he joined the German Army as a volunteer. During the First World War he was wounded on two different occasions. By 1918 he had reached the rank of lieutenant.