Die extreme Rechte in der Bundesrepublik

Contemporary right‐wing extremism in West Germany

“…Historically organized right-wing extremism in West Germany can be devided into two periods with several sub-stages (Niethammer, 1969;Stoss, 1989): A. The period of postwar right-wing extremism lasted from 1945 until 1965.…”

“…The Republicans reject their media portrayal as an extremist party, and continually attempt to distance the party from the stigmatizations of fascism and Nazism. In the scientific literature, however, the Republicans are predominantly judged as being clearly on the extreme right (Lepszy, 1989;Stoss, 1989Stoss, , 1990Paul, 1990b).…”

“…In Germany this is reflected in a wide variety of concepts competing for the solution of the 'national question'-the re-establishing of national unity-and a corresponding organisational fractionalisation. Along these two lines, Stoss (1988Stoss ( , 1989) distinguishes between the 'Old Right' or 'Old Nationalism' and the 'New Right' or 'New Nationalism': -The Old Nationalism is primarily oriented towards authoritarian or fascist forms of regime and the ideas of German National Socialism, though it does not necessarily aim to reconstruct the historical National Socialism in every way. With respect to the national question, there are slightly different positions on the question of borders.…”

German unification and the continuity of discontinuities: Cultural change and the far right in east and west

“…In the subsequent years, this figure dropped somewhat; but still in 1978 roughly one-third of West Germans shared this view. 20 This is one indicator of many which shows that a substantial minority of West Germans continued to evaluate the Nazi period in a favourable light.…”

Wer Ist Hier Der Feind? Verbündete Und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung Von Deutschland

“…105 Aber deutsche Antifaschisten wie Friedrich Hitzer und Ernst Mandel monierten Solschenizyns Relativierung des Nationalsozialismus offen. 106 108 Solschenizyn hat 'ein' Deutschland gefunden, das er mochte und das ihn mochte. Im Archipel Gulag zitierte Solschenizyn die Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Vorbild der Gerechtigkeit, wenn er behauptete, dass bis 1966 in der BRD 86.000 Menschen für ihre Verbrechen in der NS-Zeit verurteilt worden seien.…”