The DKP was funded for years directly from East Berlin and was therefore politically as well as financially dependent on the former GDR. Since then the party has lost most of its members and its daily paper UZ has had to become a weekly (since the day the money stopped coming in 1989 in fact).
Stalinist, "pacifist", "for peace and socialism", aging rapidly. The largest "socialist" group left of the PDS in Germany.