Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany (New Perspectives in German Studies)

✍ Scribed by Gerard Braunthal

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Acronyms......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Setting......Page 19
Scholarly analyses......Page 20
Further scholarly analyses......Page 21
Racism and nationalism......Page 23
Xenophobia......Page 24
Anti-Semitism......Page 28
Gender issues......Page 29
Public support for right-wing extremism......Page 31
2 The German Right-Extremist Scene, 1945–1990......Page 34
The Federal Republic......Page 36
The German Democratic Republic......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 56
The Republikaner......Page 58
German People's Union......Page 66
National Democratic Party of Germany......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 90
A splintered movement......Page 92
Free Comradeship Groups......Page 101
National liberated zones......Page 104
Skinheads......Page 106
Eastern Germany: prelude to violence......Page 111
Violence in western Germany......Page 118
Anti-Semitic acts......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 129
Newspapers......Page 132
Journals......Page 133
Publishing houses......Page 134
Cultural organizations......Page 136
The visual media......Page 137
The electronic network......Page 139
Electronic games......Page 143
Music as a propaganda tool......Page 145
Fanzines and youth......Page 150
Conclusion......Page 151
6 The New Right......Page 152
Birth of a movement......Page 153
Ideological components......Page 154
A plethora of authors and journals......Page 157
The Heidelberg Manifesto and the Thule Seminar......Page 164
Historians' dispute......Page 166
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung advertisements......Page 167
New Right links to ultra-conservatives......Page 168
Coming to terms with the past......Page 174
The Martin Walser controversy......Page 175
National pride and Leitkultur......Page 178
An appraisal......Page 182
The law and the courts......Page 184
The police......Page 188
The federal, Länder, and local governments......Page 193
Grassroots actions......Page 200
An array of local and regional projects......Page 202
Schools and students......Page 205
Youth and social workers......Page 209
The exit strategy......Page 211
Summation......Page 214
Right-wing extremism......Page 216
A challenge to democracy......Page 218
Immigration: source for controversy......Page 220
Weimar and the Berlin Republic compared......Page 221
Links abroad......Page 224
The present and future......Page 226
Notes......Page 229
Bibliography......Page 254
B......Page 267
E......Page 268
G......Page 269
I......Page 270
M......Page 271
P......Page 272
S......Page 273
V......Page 274
Z......Page 275