European social movement

The European Social Movement was a 1951 in Malmö ( Sweden based) pan-European right-wing extremist network . It was the first attempt by neo-Nazis to reorganize on a European level after the lost World War.

history

The 'European Social Movement' has its roots in the magazine Europa Unita published in Italy in the late 1940s . A conference in Rome was organized in 1950 by the student association of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), the Fronte Universitario d'Azione Nazionale (FUAN). Under the title Congress of the National Youth of Europe , the meeting was mainly attended by old Nazis and old fascists. Prominent visitors included the British Nazi leader Oswald Mosley (Union Movement), Maurice Bardèche from France, the SS member and former Hitler Youth Propaganda leader Karl-Heinz Priester ( Socialist Reich Party ), members of the Spanish Falange and associated with Gaston-Armand Amaudruz .

A year later, under the patronage of Per Engdahl (Nysvenska Rörelsen) and with the aim of a '' white European unity '', the founding of the European Social Movement was decided in May 1951 in Malmö. The approximately 60 participants included representatives of all important European Nazi organizations (German groups were refused entry) by name: Ernesto Masi head of the Italian MSI, the aforementioned Oswald Mosley, representative of the Spanish Falange, the host Per Engdahl, as well as groups from France , Portugal , Belgium and the Netherlands . Contact was made by Austrian Nazis from the Association of Independents of Wilhelm Landig, who built the Austrian counterpart to the ESB, the Austrian Social Movement, as a gathering point for old Nazis. The European Social Order Movement ( SORBE ) founded by Theodor Soucek later also belonged to the ESB. One of the co-founders was Karl-Heinz Priester , who held a position on the board of the European Social Movement.

At the initiative of Per Engdahl, who explained to those present: '' To work conspiratorially, linked by secret support points and liaison offices. '' This also included renaming yourself regularly. A first name was changed in 1953 in European liaison (EVS) and 1956 in European restructuring and European New Order (ENO).

See also

• German social movement

Web links

• The Apabiz for ESB: here

Footnotes

1. ^ Kurt P. Tauber, 'German Nationalists and European Union', pp. 564-589, in: Political Science Quarterly , edition. 74, No. 4. (December 1959), p. 568
2. ^ Gerhard Feldbauer , From Mussolini to Fini - The extreme right in Italy, Berlin 1996, p. 89
3. ^ Geoffrey Harris, The Dark Side of Europe - The extreme Right Today, Edinburgh 1994, p. 29
4. ↑ ^{a b} Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv (ed.), Masterminds in the brown net - a current overview of the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Austria, Hamburg 1996, p. 216
5. ^ Foundation Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (ed.), Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism, Vienna 1994, p. 515
6. ↑ Oliver Schröm and Andrea Röpke , Silent Help for Brown Comrades - The Secret Network of Old and Neo-Nazis, Berlin 2001, p. 58f