National-Zeitung

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National Zeitung - Deutsche Wochen Zeitung
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)DSZ Druckschriften- und Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH
EditorGerhard Frey
Founded1951
Political alignmentFar right
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Websitewww.national.zeitung.de/

The National Zeitung - Deutsche Wochen Zeitung (NZ, National Newspaper - German Weekly Newspaper) is a weekly, extreme right[1][2][3] newspaper, published by Gerhard Frey, who also founded the far right Deutsche Volksunion (German People's Union) in 1971.

Overview

The DNZ, used as the Deutsche Volksunion's party organ, espouses many of the views held by The Republicans (Germany) (Die Republikaner). Frey has sought to distance himself from overtly extremist sentiments while insisting that most Germans desire an ethnically more-or-less homogenous society.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz - BfV), announced in April 1992 that it had placed the DVU under surveillance to determine if the party met the legal definition of "anti-democratic", a classification that would permit the government to ban it. A similar investigation of The Republicans (Germany) (Die Republikaner) was announced in December 1992. Such surveillance legally can include government infiltration of the party, monitoring of mail and telephone calls, and interrogation of party members. The BfV classified both parties as "right-wing extremist" and "hostile towards the constitution"; however, as of 2012 it no longer classifies Die Republikaner as extremist and does not monitor this party any more.

Further reading

  • Cas Mudde (2002). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester University Press. pp. 66–79. ISBN 978-0-7190-6446-3. Analyzes many themes of the newspaper.

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (2009): Strategien der extremen Rechten: Hintergründe-Analysen-Antworten. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
  2. ^ Wolfgang Benz W Benz, I Arndt (1989) Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik. Frankfurt a.M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
  3. ^ A Pfahl-Traughber (2006): Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik. München, C.H. Beck.