The Green state association in West Berlin was dissolved by the party leadership, because it was perceived to be infiltrated by "neo-nazis". Some organizations on the communal level in Berlin thus still call themselves "Alternative Liste".
One important source of the Green Party has not been mentioned yet: the
K-Gruppen
, the small but, in the 70s, widely known retro-Stalinist ("anti-revisionist") parties and sects. At the time of the Green Party's founding, these groups had been driven to seemingly absurd positions due to the geopolitical development, and nearly all of were on the verge of collapsing.
The most important factions were:
-KPD-AO (Dengist, dissolved 1980)
-KPD-ML (Hoxhaist)
-KBW (no formal allegiance after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, dissolved 1983)
They had tried to infiltrate the trade unions in the 70s (not unsuccessfully in the long run), and now their members were entering the Green Party en masse, despite the fact that there wasn't any discernable ideological connection. The
K-Gruppen
had mocked the ecology movement, which they considered to be technophobic, and were mostly in favour of nuclear energy. They were opposed to the what would become the Peace Movement, instead taking a strong "anti-imperialist" (i.e. anti-Soviet and anti-GDR) position, ecouraging their members to join the
Bundeswehr
, demanding a unified Germany, sometimes coming close to open support for the NATO alliance. As authoritarian, centralist organizations, they were strictly against any notion of antiauthorianism or grassroots democracy. What most other leftists perceived as oppression of women and sexual deviants was disregarded as
"Nebenwiderspruch"
.
These seasoned operatives, ready to cast away most of their ideological believes, would become the backbone of the pragmatic, power-oriented wing of the Green Party (the only wing left now).
Regarding the strange deaths of Petra Kelly and Gerd Bastian, I found the following from
Lobster Magazine
, a UK publication that focuses on conspiracy theories, with special attention to the intrigues of British and American intelligence services: