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Lines of tradition: Europe and far right concepts after WWII

‘Nation Europe’ is based on the rejection of a multi-cultural society of a kind which the right-wing extremists still particularly identify with the USA.

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Oswald Mosley after speaking in public for the first time since the war, London, November 1947.PA/Press Association. All rights reserved.

Already in the immediate aftermath of WWII, right-wing intellectuals attempted to reconstruct a völkisch Europe idea by falling back on (pre)fascist ideologies, crude “racist doctrine” and National Socialist propaganda. The right-wing ideology of a “Nation Europe”, which was to develop into the third superpower, was first raised by the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, who already began to attempt to reorganise a brown international movement at the end of the 1940s.