With the ANS/NA banned, Kühnen turned his attention to the fledgling Free German Workers' Party (FAP) and encouraged his supporters to infiltrate and take over the group. Kühnen's bid was successful, (largely due to the fairly insignificant nature of the FAP before Kühnen) but nonetheless, he found that support for his cause had waned during his prior incarceration. Some believe this was due to a move away from orthodox Nazism to Strasserism in the German underground, leaving Kühnen's position somewhat compromised. Kühnen then began to look to Ernst Röhm for inspiration, and he broke away from full support for Adolf Hitler; condemning Hitler's purges against the SA and calling for a return to pre-1934 Nazism. Alongside the infiltration he also formed his own successor group, the Gesinnungsgemeinschaft der Neuen Front in 1984.