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 SA member and SS 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 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 NazismMacklin, p. 91Geoffrey 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 denialMacklin, 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
Gaston-Armand Amaudruz Safet Babic Alain de Benoist Yvan Blot Gottlob Berger Günter Deckert Ferdinand Ďurčanský Henning Eichberg Per Engdahl Julius Evola Johanna Grund Fritz Hippler Erwin Guido KolbenheyerKarl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship, Penguin, 1970, p. 585 Gerhard Krüger Jean-Marie Le Pen Bruno Mégret Armin Mohler Andreas Mölzer Oswald MosleyGraham Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, New York: IB Tauris, 2007, p. 102 Werner NaumannMacklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 114 Harald NeubauerCas Mudde, The Ideology of the Extreme Right, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 35 Hans OehlerPhilip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990 Wilfred von Oven Oswald PirowMacklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 85 Karl-Heinz PriesterStephen Dorril, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism, 2007, p. 591 Emil Schlee Franz Schönhuber Alexander Raven ThomsonMacklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, p. 111 Georg Franz-Willing
See also List of magazines in Germany
References
External links Germany's New Nazis 1951 pamphlet about Nation Europa and other neo--nazi groups