Politics against democracy : right-wing extremism in West Germany

Author(s)

• Stöss, Richard

Bibliographic Information

Politics against democracy : right-wing extremism in West Germany

Richard Stöss ; translated from the German by Lindsay Batson

（German studies series）

Berg, 1991

Other Title

Extreme Rechte in der Bundesrepublik

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The election success of Right-Wing extremists in West Germany is limited, but surveys have shown that up to 40per cent of the public show themselves to be susceptible to anti-democratic slogans. This book examines causes manifestations of Right-Wing extremism, and discusses possible counter measures.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Everyday scenes of right-wing extremism. Part 2 What is right-wing extremism? definitions, aims, policies: antipathy towards democracy
• "The national question" and "national opposition"
• conceptions of the "national question"
• "history revisionism"
• right-wing extrremism as a research topic. Part 3 Repressing and playing down the past - right-wing extremism as an integral part of West German political culture: anti-democratic attitudes in West Germany - "Adolf Hitler was an Italian", "attitudes towards National Socialism", the SINUS study, anti-semitic and xenophobic attitudes, denying the past, Nationalism versus national identity
• the silent, inexorable recurrence of the past - the failed attempt at denazification, the rehabilitation and protection of Nazi war criminals, anti-communism instead of anti-Fascism
• the political integration of Right-Wing extremism after 1949 - the military government licencing policy, the 1949 bundestag elections, from block opposition to grass roots consensus, fragile stability?. Part 4 The development of organized Right-Wing extremism: overview of development
• post-war extremism (1945-1965) - the Old Nationalists re-organize, a New Right is established, the New Right between the buergerblock and the Old Right, the anachronism of nationalist opposition "doldrum years", from the "third force" to the nationaldemokratische sammlung, the "gesamtdeutsche unabhangigkeitsbewegung", the decline of Right-Wing extremist supporting organizations
• New Right-Wing extremism (1966-1988) - the end of the post-war era, the rise of the NPD, the decline of the NPD and resistance towards the Social/Liberal coalition, violence and terrorism, the neo-Nazi network, protest behaviour
• the prospects - further electoral successes? - co-operation between the NPD and the DVU, the republikaner. Part 5 Causes and counter-measures: the causes of Right-Wing extremism in West Germany - individual factors, factors relating to society as a whole, anti-Democratic elements in political culture, on the interdependence of the factors
• anti-Fascism - problems and perspectives - organized anti-Fascism since 1945, should we ignore it? ban it? discuss it? explain it? or conquer it?. Part 6 Summary of the theories outlined in this analysis. Appendix. Bibliography.

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Details

• NCID: BA14096307
• ISBN:
  • 0854961909
• LCCN: 91003811
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: New York ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 272 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DD260.4
  • DC20 : 320.943
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Germany (West) -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : Fascism -- Germany (West)
  • LCSH : Conservatism -- Germany (West)
  • LCSH : Right and left (Political science)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01542818