''Nation Europa'' (also called ''Nation und Europa'') was a far-right monthly magazine, published in Germany. It was founded in 1951 and was based in

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until its closure in 2009. It is also the name of the publishing house that developed the magazine, Nation Europa Verlag.

History

Founded by former SS commander Arthur Ehrhardt and Herbert Boehme, the publication took its title from a phrase sometimes used by

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to describe his Europe a Nation vision. Adopting a European-wide vision, writers such as Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and

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were closely associated with the publication. Initially its largest single shareholder was Swedish neo-Nazi and former

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. It was edited by Ehrhardt in association with a board of five made up of

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, Paul van Tienen, Erik Lærum and Erich Kern.

Assessment

In 1955, the journal was classified as neo-Nazi by the

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. As late as 1989, the political scientist

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described the magazine as the most important right-wing extremist ( far-right) publication since 1951. , researcher at the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of

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places ''Nation Europa'' on the spectrum of the German New Right. He notes that the publication, due to its age, held far-right positions before the emergence of the New Right: the magazine "opened up early to new right-wing extremist ideology variants, instead of simply returning to Nazism." Pfeiffer characterizes ''Nation Europa'' as a "decisive forerunner and pioneer of the New Right", which is "one of the ideas generators of German right-wing extremism". However, he notes that the intellectual level of the magazine steadily declined over the years. In later years the publication became more closely associated with

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. It was accused of giving space to

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and was investigated by the German government to this end. It was also associated with

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and praised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he announced a conference on the topic. The magazine was renamed ''Nation und Europa'' in 1990. In 2000 ''Nation und Europa'' was merged with 'Lesen und Schenken'. They later publish a new journal of current affairs, '' Zuerst!'', with ''Nation und Europa'' closed in 2009.

Notable authors

* Gaston-Armand Amaudruz * Safet Babic *

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* Michael Brückner * Felix Buck *

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* Henning Eichberg *

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* Johanna Grund * Jürgen Hatzenbichler *

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* Gerhard Krüger *

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* Andreas Molau *

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* Harald Neubauer * Michael Nier *

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'', 1990 *

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* Karl-Heinz Priester * Karl Richter * Emil Schlee *

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* Jürgen Schwab * Alexander Raven ThomsonMacklin, ''Very Deeply Dyed in Black'', p. 111 * Anton Vergeiner * Reinhard Uhle-Wettler *

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References

External links

''Germany's New Nazis'' 1951 pamphlet about Nation Europa and other neo--nazi groups
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nation Europa 1951 establishments in West Germany 2009 disestablishments in Germany Defunct political magazines published in Germany German-language magazines Magazines established in 1951 Magazines disestablished in 2009 Mass media in Coburg Neo-Nazi publications Far-right politics in Germany

History

Assessment

Notable authors

See also

References

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