Nation and Europe

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Nation and Europe

description German right-wing extremist magazine
publishing company Nation Europa Verlags GmbH
First edition 1951
attitude November 2009
Frequency of publication per month
ISSN (print) 0027-8408

Nation and Europe (NE) - German monthly books (subtitles) was a German political subscription - monthly magazine with right-wing extremist , partly anti-Semitic orientation. It was founded in 1951. Its original title was Nation Europe until 1990 . Monthly in the service of the European reorganization . In the 59th year, the last issue was published in November 2009. At the end of 2009, Nation und Europa was bought by Dietmar Munier and sold through the monthly magazine First! replaced.

Publishing and editing

The seat of the NE was in Coburg . It appeared in Nation Europa Verlags GmbH , in which Harald Neubauer is said to have held the majority share (until 1996 majority owner Peter Dehoust ). According to its own information, NE had a circulation of 14,500 copies (according to other information 15,000 to 20,000), some as a double edition. Dehoust belonged to the group of editors together with Adolf von Thadden and Harald Neubauer and was, along with Karl Richter , Neubauer - pseudonyms Werner Baumann and Klaus Hansen - and Detlev Rose, a member of the editorial team.

Attached to the magazine was a book service of the same name, whose range included publications by the publisher as well as numerous books by other right-wing extremist publishing companies such as the Grabert Verlag or the Arndt Book Service . It was the largest right-wing extremist book service in the German-speaking countries and published mostly new editions of older military-historical-revisionist works, for example about the Waffen-SS units "Leibstandarte" or "Das Reich".

Tino Brandt was also an employee of the publishing house .

history

The magazine was founded in 1951 by the former SS -Sturmbannführer and "Chief of Gang Fighting" in the Führer Headquarters, Arthur Ehrhardt and the writer and former SA-Obersturmführer Herbert Böhme . Hermann Dold was a sponsor and partner of this monthly . Karl-Heinz Priester was one of the first editors . The kick-off was the founding of the European Social Movement (ESB), an association of fascist European organizations , which was pushed in Malmö in 1951 . The nation of Europe assumed the role of networking in Germany. Nation and Europe was initially founded as an organ of the German Social Movement .

The original title Nation Europa goes back to the English fascist Oswald Mosley , who in 1947 first used the term "Nation Europa". The former Deputy Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP, Helmut Sündermann, and later the publisher Gert Sudholt , who took over Sündermann's publishing network, took part in the development of the magazine . As the British committee of inquiry into the Naumann circle has found, the donors included the Swiss Gaston-Armand Amaudruz , Maurice Bardèche, Jean Bauvard and the two French bankers Albertini and Guy Lemonier.

In 1965 Gerhard Frey , editor of the National-Zeitung and a temporary NPD member, joined NE as a shareholder (initially 1.19%, in July 1965 31%), but later withdrew. After Erhardt's death (1971), Peter Dehoust became the editor, a close colleague of Erhardt, who was also the main shareholder until 1996. 1990 united nation Europe with the German Monatsheften of Gert Sudholt and now introduced this subtitle, the title was in this context in the nation and Europe changed. In 1992 Dehoust took on Harald Neubauer - alongside Adolf von Thadden - as co-editor of NE. At that time the NE was closely aligned with the German League for People and Homeland (DLVH). Dehoust and Neubauer were both involved in the founding of the DLVH in 1991 and held high management positions there. In 1994 it merged with the "Deutsche Rundschau" , the unofficial party organ of the DLVH. Regardless of the temporary very close ties to one party, the DLVH, NE always advocated the gathering of all right-wing extremists. There was also close cooperation with the Southern Africa Aid Committee and the Society for Free Journalism .

At the end of 2009 the title was bought by the publisher Dietmar Munier . Munier then replaced Nation and Europe with the new monthly First! - German news magazine .

Alignment

In 1955, the Institute for Contemporary History rated the magazine as neo-Nazi . In 1989, the political scientist Eckhard Jesse described the magazine as the most important right-wing extremist body since 1951. According to the assessment of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was one of the “most important” right-wing extremist theoretical and strategic bodies in the Federal Republic of Germany. According to the opinion of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, “the magazine [...] offered a forum for the entire non-Nazi right-wing extremist spectrum in Germany, in line with its objectives”. The assignment of the journal to the New Right, which has been carried out by some constitutional protection agencies since the 1990s, is methodologically questionable. Thomas Pfeiffer, research assistant at the constitution protection in North Rhine-Westphalia, who decreed NE in the spectrum of the New Right, notes that NE already assumed right-wing extremist positions before the New Right came into being. "The sheet has [but] opened new right-wing extremist ideology variants early, rather than the mere return to Nazism Pfeiffer to propagate." Indicates NE as a "crucial precursor and pioneer of the New Right ," the count "to the creative minds of the German right-wing". He notes, however, that the magazine's intellectual level continued to decline.

As the title suggests programmatically, it was about the reconstruction of right-wing ideologies with an emphasis on nation and Europe . According to this, Greater Germany should take on the leading role in regaining the identity of the European peoples in a regionalist Europe. The United States stood in the opinion of NE due to their cultural and political influence that goal in the way, so the magazine particularly Totally committed against this great power . Articles directed against the State of Israel as well as anti-Semitic slogans (“ Zionist financial spectrum ”) were also frequently to be found.

The central function of the magazine was to provide trend-setting topics, strategy discussions and options for intervention aimed at the entire right-wing extremist spectrum. In addition to these strategic and theoretical considerations, the magazine also contained articles on current affairs. Anton Maegerle characterizes the articles in the magazine as "often xenophobic or revisionist content".

While Islam in Europe was largely denied its right to exist in the magazine, Islamism outside Europe appeared, according to Riebe, to large parts of the authorship "as the only serious opponent of ' Americanism '". This ambivalent attitude was reflected not only in articles, but also irregularly in the front pages of the magazine. While on the one hand warnings were given against the alleged Islamization of Germany and Europe, the cover picture of the 07/08 - 2006 issue adorned the Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadineschad . Next to him on the cover picture is printed in bold “Thank you, Mr. President”, alluding to his denial of the Holocaust .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See imprint Nation and Europe, cf. Thomas Pfeiffer: For the people and the fatherland. The media network of the right - press, music, Internet, Berlin 2002, pp. 145 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c d Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism. Berlin 1996, pp. 420-422.
  3. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: The megalomaniac testifies. In: Spiegel Online. September 24, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  4. ^ Anton Maegerle: Globalization from the point of view of the extreme right. Braunschweig 2005, p. 57
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 116
  6. ↑ Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv (Hrsg.): Masterminds in the brown net - A current overview of the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Austria. Hamburg 1996, p. 216.
  7. ↑ Arthur Ehrhardt: The idea will win. In: Nation & Europe. 02/1975, pp. 43-45.
  8. ↑ a b c S. Jäger: right pressure. The New Right press. Bonn 1988
  9. ↑ a b c C. Jansen: The conspiratorial activity of right-wing radicalism. The neo-Nazi international. Amsterdam undated, p. 10 f.
  10. ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer: For people and fatherland. The media network of the right - press, music, internet. Berlin 2002, pp. 145 ff.
  11. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . According to the publisher's advertising, the new title should mean "Germany should remain German."@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.np-coburg.de  
  12. ^ Hans Rothfels in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 1955, issue 2, p. 223ff. ( PDF ).
  13. ↑ Eckhard Jesse: The "third way" in the German question. In: Germany Archive. No. 5/1989, p. 545.
  14. ^ VS report, see web links.
  15. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer: Avantgarde and Bridge. In: Wolfgang Gessenharter & Thomas Pfeiffer (eds.): The New Right - a Danger for Democracy? Wiesbaden 2004, p. 63 f.
  16. ^ Anton Maegerle: Globalization from the point of view of the extreme right. Braunschweig 2005, p. 58
  17. ↑ Jan Riebe: In the field of tension between racism and anti-Semitism. The relationship of the German extreme right to Islamist groups. Tectum, Marburg 2006, p. 122
  18. ↑ Gottlob Berger, “Expansion of the Waffen-SS” in 1953. For figures in Berger's publication, see Gerald Fleming: The origin of the “Bernadotte letter” to Himmler, March 10, 1945. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 4/1978, p 571-600. (PDF file, 8.4 MB) Here p. 597.
  19. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 198.
  20. ↑ Alex Rühle: Soccer, soccer above everything. From Bauwens to Meyer-Vorfelder: The embarrassing incidents of the DFB, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2002, text available online at www.bischofshol.de
  21. ↑ P. 181 Christoph Butterwegge: Topics of the Right - Topics of the Middle: "Immigration, Demographic Change and National Consciousness"
  22. ↑ Per Hinrichs, Carsten Holm: Right to eternal speech . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 2002 ( online ).