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5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism

July 22, 2021, is the 10th anniversary of the Utøya-Massacre, when Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in a political holiday camp organized by the Norwegian Labour Party, as well as…

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6 min

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How The Far Right Is Going Liquid

How many right-wing extremists are there in Germany? Security authorities, academia, and civil society repeatedly rack their brains over this question in order to accurately assess the threat to liberal…

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4 min

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The Far-Right Is Now Using Comic Books To Spread Their Ideology

Comics have long become a popular genre of entertainment and, given their emotiveness and the immediacy of the image-word arrangement, it comes as no surprise that the far right, too,…

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8 min

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German Nationalism, From Revolution to Illiberalism

It is often noted that 19th-century nationalism owed much to the rise of academic history. As historians have observed, studies in national development provided materials for later and cruder claims…

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8 min

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Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic

The acronym PEGIDA has been associated with grassroots anti-Islam protest for some years. In fact, the group – full name ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the (Christian) West’ –…

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5 min

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How Authoritarians Erode Democracy Under The Guise Of Defending It

The last decade has brought about both new conspiracy theories as well as the revival of older conspiracy myths on the far-right. Some far-right figureheads propagate the fear of a…

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5 min

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Inside The German Far-Right Party’s Effort To Normalize Nationalism Again

For this year’s federal election, the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has come up with a campaign that kills three birds with one slogan: it aims to establish…

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6 min

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Björn Höcke: Germany’s Very Own Enoch Powell?

Enoch Powell’s “Rivers Of Blood” speech became a model for the European far right, using deliberate taboo-breaking and rhetorical finesse to carry racist and fascist narratives into mainstream discourse. Björn…

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6 min

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“March Divided, Fight United”? The occasional and intentional ties of AfD and NPD to the White Power Music Scene

In the light of the efforts to monitor the AfD (Alternative for Germany) the similarities and differences to the unsuccessful attempts to ban the NPD (National Democratic Party) shine through.…

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10 min

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White Trash, White Privilege

I grew up in southern Bavaria in the 1960s. I started formal education at the age of six at the local Volksschule — the people’s school. Quite frankly, I don’t remember much…

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5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism

How The Far Right Is Going Liquid

The Far-Right Is Now Using Comic Books To Spread Their Ideology

German Nationalism, From Revolution to Illiberalism

Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic

How Authoritarians Erode Democracy Under The Guise Of Defending It

Inside The German Far-Right Party’s Effort To Normalize Nationalism Again

Björn Höcke: Germany’s Very Own Enoch Powell?

“March Divided, Fight United”? The occasional and intentional ties of AfD and NPD to the White Power Music Scene

White Trash, White Privilege

In Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy

5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism

How January 6 Echoed Past Right-Wing Coup Attempts In The Western World

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