of the Enabling Act, the Hitler government banned the SPD, and the other German political parties chose to dissolve to avoid persecution, making the Nazi Party the only legal political party in Germany. Exile and death In June 1933, Wels went into exile in the Territory of the Saar Basin, which at the time was under League of Nations control. From there he moved to exile in Prague. In Prague, he established Sopade, the exile organization of the SPD. In August 1933, he was deprived of his German citizenship. As a result of the Munich Agreement, Wels had to leave Prague and went to Paris at the end of 1938, where he died on 16 September 1939 at the age of 66. He is buried in the Cimetière Nouveau cemetery at Châtenay-Malabry. Legacy In his memoirs, the former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning described Otto Wels as "Germany's bravest man in the fight against Hitler". References External links German Resistance Memorial Center Biography , the speech from March 23, 1933, audio as far, as it has been preserved, supplemented by the protocol, animated with kinetic typography 1873 births 1939 deaths Politicians from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold members Members of the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International Exiles from Nazi Germany