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The Thule-Seminar is a

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nationalist organization with strong

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ist roots based in

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. It was founded in 1980 by Pierre Krebs, essentially as the German branch of GRECE. Sometimes described as a

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or "party of the mind", its name alludes to the Thule Society, one of the organizations that facilitated the rise of the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

s and provided some of the intellectual cadre for the latter. It describes itself as a "research society for Indo-European culture". On its homepage, it deplores the formation of a "multiracial, i.e. monoprimitive" society in the "ethnosuicidal" cultures of Europe and declares its aim to be the formation of "metapolitical" ("metapo") cells across Europe. As emblems, it uses the Black Sun, as well as the

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. Its ideology has been described as based on the Conservative revolution and including elements of anti-Americanism,

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and being close to

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

. The first major publication of the Seminar was ''Das unvergängliche Erbe. Alternativen zum Prinzip der Gleichheit'' (

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: "The Everlasting Heritage: Alternatives to the Principle of Equality"), edited by Krebs and published in 1981 by

Grabert Verlag Grabert-Verlag together with its subsidiary Hohenrain-Verlag is one of the largest and best-known extreme-right publishing houses in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is notorious for publishing anti-Semitic works, for example those of Wilhelm ...

; notably, the preface of this volume was written by

Hans Jürgen Eysenck Hans Jürgen Eysenck (; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other ...

. It turned out to be the "programmatic" book of the Seminar. The Thule-Seminar publishes a journal called ''Elemente'' and another one called ''Metapo''.

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* {{Authority control New Right (Europe) Modern pagan organisations based in Germany Religious organizations established in 1980 Modern pagan organizations established in the 1980s Political and economic think tanks based in Germany

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