Movements and Ideas of the Extreme Right in Europe. Positions and Continuities

The term 'extreme right', despite an agreed upon definition, continues to be in common usage, and is frequently employed in political discourse, in the media, and in academic debates. This volume presents a broad range of movements, political parties and persons, all of them representing positions and continuities within the framework of the extreme right in the space of a century. The contributions all bring new knowledge and perspectives, and give an insight into current research in a number of fields, ranging from the end of the First World War to the first decades of the 21st century.

Contents:
+ Kerstin Bornholdt: Body Movements as Political Actors?
+ Stefanie Schrader: Völkische Weltanschauung on the Back Benches
+ The Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
+ Alessandro Salvador: The Political Strategies of the Stahlhelm Veterans’ League and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, 1918-1933
+ Anders G. Kjøstvedt: A National Alternative? National Socialist Appeals to Labour in Berlin, 1925-1933
+ Matthew Worley: Finding Fascism: The Politics of Sir Oswald Mosley, 1929-1932
+ Nicola Karcher: Nasjonal Samling’s Foreign Office in Germany during the Second World War: Organisation, Strategies and Cooperation
+ Martin Finkenberger: Johann von Leers as Part of an International Network of Postwar Fascism
+ Elisabetta Cassina Wolff: Men among the Ruins. The Radical Right in Italy
+ Gideon Botsch: Continuities within Germany’s «National Opposition». From the Deutsche Reichspartei to the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, 1949-2010
+ Felix Wiedemann: Wise Women and Germanic Faith: Imagining Witches in Current German Right-Wing Extremism
+ Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik: A Voice of the Extreme Right? The Role of the Bund der Vertriebenen and its Leader Erika Steinbach in the Postwar German Public Discourse.