Paul van Tienen (10 January 1921 – 1995 probably in La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain) was a Dutch Nazi during

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and a far-right politician after the war, convicted at least twice for his political activities.

Biography

Until 1945

Born in

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, Van Tienen joined the

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during

and became an ''

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''. He was active on the Eastern Front in a propaganda detachment.

After the war

After the war he continued his political activism and became involved with the

European Social Movement The European Social Movement (German: ''Europäische soziale Bewegung'', ESB) was a neo-fascist Europe-wide alliance set up in 1951 to promote pan-European nationalism. History The ESB had its origins in the emergence of the Italian Social Move ...

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, whom he cited as a political ally in 1953. Unlike many of his collaborationist colleagues he never lost his right to vote or his Dutch citizenship, since he was considered a minor when he joined the SS. A member of the Dutch organization of former collaborators

Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten The ''Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten'' ("Foundation of Former Political Delinquents"; abbreviated SOPD) was a Dutch right-wing organization founded by and for formerly jailed and convicted war criminals, who had collaborated with the German o ...

("Foundation of Former Political Delinquents"), he went on to organize a political party associated with that organization, the

National European Social Movement The National European Social Movement (NESB, nl, Nationaal Europese Sociale Beweging) was a Dutch neo-Nazi party, founded in 1953 as the political arm of the Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten ("Foundation for Political Delinquents"), and disba ...

, which was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in 1954/1955. His activities with the NESB had led to an arrest in 1953, when he and

Jan Wolthuis Jan Aksel Wolthuis (27 February 1903 – 16 March 1983), a lawyer by training, was a Dutch Nazi who collaborated with the German occupiers during World War II and after the war was active in far-right politics. Biography Until 1945 Born in Gronin ...

were sentenced to two months' imprisonment for running an organization considered a successor to the NSB. Throughout the 1950s, Van Tienen, a bookseller in

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, published revisionist articles in an irregularly appearing periodical, the ''Nederlands Archief der Conservatieve Revolutie'' ("Dutch Archive of the Conservative Revolution"). That he was being actively investigated by the Dutch

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is clear from records made public by the Dutch Argus foundation. He also operated a mail-order book-selling business and was arrested and convicted in 1965 of insulting a segment of the population because he sold antisemitic literature. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment and three months probation. He had lost his passport because of his SS involvement and fled to Spain, probably with false papers, where he operated a penny arcade, and died sometime in 1995.

References

External links

"Rechts-Extremisme in Nederland"
a 1953 dossier on far-right politics by the

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tienen, Paul van 1921 births 1995 deaths Dutch neo-Nazis Dutch people of World War II Leaders of political parties in the Netherlands National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands politicians Politicians from Utrecht (city) People from Yogyakarta Dutch Waffen-SS personnel Dutch emigrants to Spain Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies