Comradeship ring of national youth associations

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The Kameradschaftsring Nationaler Jugendverbände (KNJ, also Kameradschaftsring der Nationaler Jugend ) was an umbrella organization of right-wing extremist youth associations that was active in Germany and Austria from 1954 to the end of the 1960s .

history

On June 24, 1954, the Wiking-Jugend , the Adler Youth Association and the Austrian Association of Heimattreuer Jugend (BHJÖ) founded the KNJ in Hamburg with the main objective of mutual exchange on publications and activities as well as the joint implementation of events. In support of these goals, the joint magazine Der Trommler. Martial arts pamphlet issued by the national youth . Numerous other youth associations joined the KNJ in the following years, and around 1960 it had 18 organizations with around 20,000 members.

In 1961 the KNJ lost its only member from Austria with the BHJÖ after it was banned due to re- activation of the Nazi regime ; it was subsequently restricted to Germany. A little later it changed its name to the comradeship ring of the national youth .

With the decline of almost all nationalist youth associations in the 1960s due to state criminal prosecution and the aging of the members, the KNJ increasingly lost its importance until it disintegrated in the late 1960s. The Wiking-Jugend and the German Association of Heimattreuer Jugend continued the cooperation they started in the KNJ until around 1975.

Program

Programmatically, the KNJ turned against capitalism as well as against Marxism , only the performance for the national community should determine the position of the individual; he called for a "Europe based on complete equality between its peoples and complete independence from East and West". In his principles, published in 1959, he continued to demand racial segregation , the strict separation of church and state and the promotion of the elite. Modern art and the " foreign infiltration of (the) culture through foreign influences" were rejected. In a further programmatic publication from the same year, the KNJ denied German guilt for World War II and demanded a revision of the demarcation.

Member organizations

The changing members of the KNJ included, among others

Jungsturm and Jungdeutschlandbund were at the same time, through the German Youth Association Kyffhäuser, members of the also right-wing extremist working group of patriotic youth associations .

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