THIS DAY IN HISTORY – President George H.W. Bush orders Operation Desert Shield – 1990

“a well known organization in Germany as far back as the 1990s.”

Go back a little farther.

Antifaschistische Aktion was established by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) based on the principle of a communist front and its establishment was announced in the party’s newspaper Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag) in 1932. It functioned as an integral part of the KPD during its entire existence from 1932 to 1933.[8] A member of the Comintern, the KPD under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann was loyal to the Soviet government headed by Joseph Stalin to the extent that the party had been directly controlled and funded by the Soviet leadership in Moscow since 1928.[9][8]

The KPD described Antifaschistische Aktion as a “red united front under the leadership of the only anti-fascist party, the KPD”.[10] The KPD had proclaimed that it was “the only anti-fascist party” during the elections of 1930.[9] Unlike the situation in Italy, no party regarded itself as “fascist” in Weimar-era Germany. Central to Antifaschistische Aktion was the use of the epithet fascist. According to Norman Davies, the concept of “anti-fascism” as used by the KPD originated as an ideological construct of the Soviet Union,[11] where the epithets fascist and fascism were primarily and widely used to describe capitalist society in general and virtually any anti-Soviet or anti-Stalinist activity or opinion. This usage was also adopted by communist parties affiliated with the Comintern such as the KPD.[12]

Most Americans are unware , maybe even Germans too, that Germany suffered though a Bolshevik revolution, beginning in the fall of 1918 , along with many other European countries, including Spain, which BTW is now full blown Bolshevik controlled. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella are spinning in their graves.

Unfinished Victory
Arthur Bryant 1940

It was not: to the next world that many millions of hungry, ragged, ill-housed German men and women turned, but to an angry hope of bettering this. The resolve of the Communist Third International, now firmly established over all the Russian dominions, to make Germany the spearhead of revolution in the We st had not been weakened by the fiascos of 1919 and 1920. Sporadic Spartacist outbreaks, generally accompanied by loss of life, had continued throughout the years of humiliation and inflation, and even during the brief false dawn of hectic prosperity that followed. In 1920 in the lace and textile towns of the Saxon “Siberia”, hungry mobs, bearing, in Mr. Knickerbocker’s picturesque phrase, the Red Flag in one hand and a torch in the other,[89] burnt the villas of the bourgeoisie and set up a Communist government which kept peaceable folk in a state of terror until its suppression by the Reichswehr. In the same year a Red Army operated in the Ruhr. Three years later a rising occurred at Hamburg under the leadership of two Russian Jews, the writer Sobelsohn, who called himself Karl Radek, and Otto Marquardt, a member of the Soviet Commercial Mission. This was put down by the police at a cost of forty dead and a hundred and fifty wounded. On May Day 1929 the “red” faubourg of Berlin, Wedding, was again, under the lead of the Red Front Fighters’ League, the scene of several days’ fighting in which nineteen lives were lost.

Yet for the time being the Communists, taught by their earlier failures, sought other ways than those violence to win over the bulk of the nation. The emphasis was now set on propaganda rather than battle, and only those who dared to oppose that propaganda publicly suffered physical violence. For those more gullible or pliant, easy steps to Communism framed to suit all tastes were afforded by the various organisations of the German Communist Party — itself a branch of the Third International. There were the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition, the Young Communists’ Union, the German Red Help, the Association of German Proletarian Free-Thinkers, the International Workers’ Help, the Red Sporting Clubs, the Anti-Fascist League, the Reich Peasants’ League, the Union for Proletarian Sexual Reform — for, by advocating “free love” in the name of the emancipation of the workers, a universal impulse could be harnessed to the Cause — and a number of other benevolent and purposeful organisations. Even those who played chess or the mandoline or sang in choirs or wished to learn Esperanto were not overlooked.

The Communists were nothing if not thorough, though perhaps always more so in theory than in practice. An elaborately planned underground organisation was created to further the preparation of revolution. There was a “Free Radio” to broadcast propaganda, “red cavalry”, as it was called, to carry the Party’s private postal service on motor bicycles and, sometimes, in stolen cars, and a Secret Police to spy on foes and doubtful brethren, prepare dossiers, take photographs and draw up “black lists” of “Fascist” and reactionary “pests” who were to be systematically calumnied and, when better occasion offered, “polished off”. This “ opponent work ”, as it was called in Marxist jargon, involved the tapping of telephone conversations, the interception of postal correspondence and the wholesale bribery of employees. The language of battle was employed and all who were conservative in their sympathies were described as enemies.

For the Communist Party, though for the moment proceeding under the forms of peace and even apparently of democracy, was part of a great fighting organisation, directed by the rulers of a foreign power which already controlled a sixth of the earth’s surface and whose professed aim it was to destroy the national states of the past and, by levelling all frontiers in a common war of class against class, to found a new world order. Civil war was its first objective for without civil war its final aims could not be achieved. “The German Revolution”, reported the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Executive of the Communist International at Moscow in September 1928, “ will decide the fate of the proletarian revolution in Western and Central Europe.” In its famous Resolution Germany was described as “the wound in Europe” in which Communism was to establish itself and spread its fatal poison. Once Germany was inflamed, Poland, the Baltic States and the Balkans, wedged between Muscovy and Germany, would follow inevitably. The Red Flag would then fly from the Pacific shores to the banks of the Rhine.

https://www.unz.com/book/arthur_bryant__unfinished-victory/