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German Democracy and the Far-Right Since 1945: Populism and Minorities

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  • The following pages set out to document the German far-right since 1945, along with the responses from the German government and the experience of minorities that extremists tend to target. This study finds that the German government’s heavy-handed response to visible far-right political parties as early as the 1950s consequently drove subsequent groups to repackage their message with populist language that kept far-right rhetoric within the boundaries of acceptable discourse and party behavior. Since the 1950s, far-right political parties have worked to cultivate images of national conservatism that has allowed parities to take nationalist and nativist positions while they attempt to distance themselves from the National Socialism. This thesis relies on translated documents from the German Ministry of the Interior and Community, the Federal Constitutional Court, and German media outlets. The author also utilizes American intelligence reports and newspapers who have collected information on or have written about the German far-right. This work builds off the preexisting periodization of waves of far-right extremism in Germany and contributes a fourth to include the most recent group that arose out of the Global Financial Crisis in 2009.
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