Topic > From Nazism to Neo-Nazism - 1409

After the fall of Nazism under the rule of Adolf Hitler in 1945, the Allied forces and the new German governments strove to prevent the emergence of a new Nazi movement in the area through the denazification process. Neo-Nazi activity was observed limited to the outer perimeters of German society. Some former Nazis in the 1960s, however, took up Nazi ideologies and beliefs and tried to pass them on to new generations. They worked to reintroduce concepts popular during the Nazi period from 1933 to 1945 such as racial nationalism, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, fascist policies, and a philosophy centered on loyalty to Hitler. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and the subsequent unification of East and West Germany contributed to the possible expansion of neo-Nazism in the region. The reunified country, which had been at the center of conflicting ideologies between East and West during the Cold War, has seen a resurgence of nationalism that has marked violence and discrimination against minorities and foreigners. Neo-Nazis organized city marches in both Germany and there was increasing terrorism by young people disillusioned with events and government policies. The aforementioned youth, who largely composed and believed in neo-Nazism during these years of the 1990s, were mostly teenagers who emerged from East Germany after experiencing economic instability and rising unemployment during the rule of the communists . But this does not mean that only East Germans would be considered the source of the movement. West Germany also lived through far-right rhetoric and the neo-Nazi behavior of small and few groups. It was... middle of paper ......ook.org/preview/0275956385/The-Neo-Nazis-and-German-Unificationhttp://www.google.com/books?hl=tl&lr=&i d= XHTBMpirJ-IC&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=riviste+sui+fattori+contribuiscono+alla+ascesa+del+neo+nazismo&ots=jDnkwm3YW4&sig=59vL lNSMi5qLPPaxBpCbsFq1_70#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=- efGhmaRw4cC&pg=PA246&dq=neo-naz ism+in+germany&hl=tl&ei=fqp4TrOiCM-jiAeD3vHtDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepa ge&q=neo-nazism%20in%20germany&f =falsehttp://www.spiegel. de/international/germania/0,1518,716006,00.htmlhttp://www.socialismtoday.org/51/nazis.htmlhttp:// www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133c/133cproj/ 04pr oj/RouzerLewis91Tauber67-042.htmhttp://books.google.com/books?id=AkyV7oSRqCIC&pg=PA60&dq=neo-nazism+in+germa ny&hl=tl&ei=fqp4TrOiCM-jiAeD3vHtDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&res num=8&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBw# v=onepage&q&f=false