''Nation Europa'' (also called ''Nation und Europa'') was a
far-right
Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...
monthly magazine, published in Germany. It was founded in 1951 and was based in
Coburg
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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
Arthur Ehrhardt (21 March 1896 – 16 May 1971) was a Waffen-SS commander who served as a Nazi security warfare expert during World War II. After the war, he became a leading figure in the neo-Nazi movement.
Early years
Ehrhardt was born Mengers ...
and
Herbert Boehme
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* Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert
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Australia
* Herbert, ...
, the publication took its title from a phrase sometimes used by
Oswald Mosley
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to describe his
Europe a Nation
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vision. Adopting a European-wide vision, writers such as
Gaston-Armand Amaudruz
Gaston-Armand "Guy" Amaudruz (21 December 1920 – 7 September 2018) was a Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier.
Biography
Initially a supporter of the Swiss fascist movement of Arthur Fonjallaz, he came to wider attent ...
and
Maurice Bardèche
Maurice Bardèche (1 October 1907 – 30 July 1998) was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism in post–World War II Europe. Bardèche was also the brother-in-law of the collaborationist ...
were closely associated with the publication. Initially its largest single shareholder was Swedish
neo-Nazi
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and former
Olympic
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athlete
Carl-Ehrenfried Carlberg
Carl-Ehrenfried Carlberg (24 February 1889 – 22 January 1962) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Early life and Olympics
Carlberg was born in Stockholm and served in the Royal Guards Regiment Göta of the Swe ...
. It was edited by Ehrhardt in association with a board of five made up of
Per Engdahl
Per Claes Sven Edvard Engdahl (25 February 1909 – 4 May 1994) was a leading Swedish far-right politician. He was a leader of '' Sveriges Fascistiska Kamporganisation'' (SFKO or Sweden's Fascist Action Organization), during the 1930s.
Born in ...
,
Hans Oehler
Hans Oehler (18 December 1888 – 7 January 1967) was a Swiss journalist and a sympathizer of Nazism.
Initially a journalist, Oehler turned his attention towards producing pro-German material. Later he was one of the founders of the ''Schweizer ...
,
Paul van Tienen
Paul van Tienen (10 January 1921 – 1995 probably in La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain) was a Dutch Nazi during World War II and a far-right politician after the war, convicted at least twice for his political activities.
Biography Until 1 ...
,
Erik Lærum and
Erich Kern
Erich Kern, (born Erich Knud Kernmayr on 27 February 1906 – died 13 September 1991) was a far-right Austrian journalist, war-time propagandist, and a post-war Nazi activist. He became a writer of revisionist books that sought to glorify the acti ...
.
Assessment
In 1955, the journal was classified as
neo-Nazi
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by the
Institute of Contemporary History (Munich) The Institute of Contemporary History (''Institut für Zeitgeschichte'') in Munich was conceived in 1947 under the name ''Deutsches Institut für Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit'' ("German Institute of the History of the National Sociali ...
. As late as 1989, the political scientist
Eckhard Jesse
Eckhard Jesse (born 16 July 1948 in Wurzen, Saxony) is a German political scientist. He held the chair for "political systems and political institutions" at the Technical University of Chemnitz from 1993 to 2014. Jesse is one of the best known G ...
described the magazine as the most important right-wing extremist (
far-right
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) publication since 1951. , researcher at the
State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
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In seven federal states of Germany, it is a semi-independent agency called and reports to th ...
of
North Rhine-Westphalia
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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
Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat The German League for People and Homeland (german: Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat or ) is a far-right political organization in Germany.
History
The DVLH had its origins in the power struggle within ''Die Republikaner'' between moderate leader ...
. It was accused of giving space to
Nazism
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and was investigated by the German government to this end. It was also associated with
Holocaust denial
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...
and praised
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدینژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956), 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
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Gaston-Armand Amaudruz
Gaston-Armand "Guy" Amaudruz (21 December 1920 – 7 September 2018) was a Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier.
Biography
Initially a supporter of the Swiss fascist movement of Arthur Fonjallaz, he came to wider attent ...
*
Safet Babic
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Babic ...
*
Alain de Benoist
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*
Yvan Blot
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Biography
Born on 29 June 1948 in Saint-Mandé, Yvan Blot was ...
*
Michael Brückner
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Felix Buck
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*
Björn Clemens
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*
Günter Deckert
Günter Deckert (9 January 1940 – 31 March 2022) was a German far-right political activist. He was the leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). He served five years in prison in Germany for various offences, includ ...
*
Ferdinand Ďurčanský
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*
Henning Eichberg
Henning Eichberg (1 December 1942 in Schweidnitz, Silesia – 22 April 2017 in Odense, Denmark) was a German sociologist and historian, teaching at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. He became notable by his contributions to the philo ...
*
Per Engdahl
Per Claes Sven Edvard Engdahl (25 February 1909 – 4 May 1994) was a leading Swedish far-right politician. He was a leader of '' Sveriges Fascistiska Kamporganisation'' (SFKO or Sweden's Fascist Action Organization), during the 1930s.
Born in ...
*
Julius Evola
Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly ...
*
Johanna Grund
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Jürgen Hatzenbichler
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Fritz Hippler
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*
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
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*
Gerhard Krüger
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Le Pen graduated fro ...
*
Bruno Mégret
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*
Armin Mohler
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*
Andreas Molau
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Andreas Mölzer
Andreas Mölzer (born 2 December 1952) is an Politics of Austria, Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.
Biography
Born in Leoben, Styria, Andreas Mölzer is of Styrian origin and atten ...
*
Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician during the 1920s and 1930s who rose to fame when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member ...
*
Werner Naumann
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Harald Neubauer
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Neubauer was trained as an overseas buyer and undertook military serv ...
*
Michael Nier
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Hans Oehler
Hans Oehler (18 December 1888 – 7 January 1967) was a Swiss journalist and a sympathizer of Nazism.
Initially a journalist, Oehler turned his attention towards producing pro-German material. Later he was one of the founders of the ''Schweizer ...
Philip Rees
Philip Rees (born 1941) is a British writer and librarian formerly in charge of acquisitions at the J. B. Morrell Library, University of York. He has written books on fascism and the extreme right.
Works
*'' Fascism in Britain'' (Harvester Pr ...
, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890
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'', 1990
*
Wilfred von Oven
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Wilfred vo ...
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Oswald Pirow
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*
Karl-Heinz Priester
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Under the Nazis
A n ...
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Karl Richter
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Emil Schlee
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A noted history academic, Schlee had long called for the restoration of Germany t ...
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Franz Schönhuber
Franz Xaver Schönhuber (10 January 1923 – 27 November 2005) was a German
right-wing extremist journalist, politician, and author. He gained fame as a founder and eventual chairman of the right-wing German party The Republicans.
He was a membe ...
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Jürgen Schwab
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*Jürgen Ahrend (born 1930), German organ builder
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Alexander Raven Thomson[Macklin, ''Very Deeply Dyed in Black'', p. 111]
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Anton Vergeiner
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Reinhard Uhle-Wettler
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Georg Franz-Willing
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Gottlob Berger
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See also
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List of magazines in Germany
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Germany. Their language may be German or other languages.
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*'' 11 Freunde''
*'' 1000°''
*'' 5vor12''
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*''ABC-Zeitung''
*'' Abenteuer Archäologie''
*'' AB ...
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