ABSTRACT
The chapter concerns the development of the propaganda and organisation of the radical right in the Federal Republic of Germany, especially one of its offshoots known as the Neue Rechte or New Right. It began to take shape shortly after the Second World War, reaching an apogee in the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst it lost some of its political significance over time, it has continued to function and has gained the support of a considerable part of German society, especially young people with nationalist and xenophobic views. An analysis of how such groups function shows that the ideology behind this political trend – which is somewhat ephemeral and constantly mutating in organisational terms – also creates anti-liberal slogans, as well as sometimes anti-capitalist, populist, authoritarian and even neo-pagan ones. The Neue Rechte is extremely critical of the European Union, considering it to be an artificial, inefficient and overly bureaucratic creation. In its place, it proposes a loose union of European countries and nations, one which should strive to preserve the historical and cultural identity of the Old Continent, opposing all foreign influences and especially Islamic ones.
