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 Coburg until its closure in 2009. It is also the name of the publishing house that developed the magazine, Nation Europa Verlag.
History
Nation Europa was founded by former
Sturmabteilung member and
Schutzstaffel commander
Arthur Ehrhardt and
Herbert Boehme. Helmut Sündermann, a high-ranking National-Socialist propagandist, writing under the pen name “Heinrich Sanden” also helped found the magazine.
The publication took its title from a phrase sometimes used by
Oswald Mosley to describe his Europe a Nation vision. Adopting a European-wide vision, writers such as Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Maurice Bardèche were closely associated with the publication. Initially its largest single shareholder was Swedish
neo-Nazi and former
Olympic Games athlete Carl-Ehrenfried Carlberg.
[Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, p. 54] It was edited by Ehrhardt in association with a board of five made up of
Per Engdahl,
Hans Oehler, Paul van Tienen, Erik Lærum and
Erich Kern.
[G. Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, London, 2007, p. 180]
Assessment
In 1955, the journal was classified as
neo-Nazi by the Institute of Contemporary History (Munich).
[Hans Rothfels, Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History, 1955, Vol. 2, p. 223ff. ( PDF)] As late as 1989, the political scientist
Eckhard Jesse described the magazine as the most important right-wing extremist publication since 1951.
[Eckhard Jesse: Der «dritte Weg» in der deutschen Frage. In: Deutschland Archiv. Nr. 5/1989, p. 545.] Thomas Pfeiffer, researcher at the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia 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.
[: Avantgarde und Brücke. In: & Thomas Pfeiffer (Eds): Die Neue Rechte – eine Gefahr für die Demokratie? Wiesbaden 2004, p. 63f.]
In later years the publication became more closely associated with Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat. It was accused of giving space to Nazism[Macklin, p. 91][Geoffrey Harris, The Dark Side of Europe, Edinburgh University Press, 1994, p. 54] and was investigated by the German government to this end. It was also associated with Holocaust denial[Macklin, p. 93] and praised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he announced a conference on the topic.[ Nation und Europa, 07/08 2006] 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.[ Neue Presse]
Notable authors
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Gaston-Armand Amaudruz
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Safet Babic
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Alain de Benoist
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Yvan Blot
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Gottlob Berger
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Günter Deckert
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Ferdinand Ďurčanský
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Henning Eichberg
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Per Engdahl
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Julius Evola
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Johanna Grund
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Fritz Hippler
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Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
[Karl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship, Penguin, 1970, p. 585]
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Gerhard Krüger
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Bruno Mégret
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Armin Mohler
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Andreas Mölzer
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Oswald Mosley
[Graham Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, New York: IB Tauris, 2007, p. 102]
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Werner Naumann
[Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 114]
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Harald Neubauer
[Cas Mudde, The Ideology of the Extreme Right, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 35]
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Hans Oehler
[Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990]
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Wilfred von Oven
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Oswald Pirow
[Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 85]
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Karl-Heinz Priester
[Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism, 2007, p. 591]
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Emil Schlee
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Franz Schönhuber
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Alexander Raven Thomson
[Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 111]
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Georg Franz-Willing
See also
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List of magazines in Germany
External links
