With some annoyance, I recently noticed that my local newspapers, including Aarhus Stiftstidende, were full of articles about Nazism, an ideology I thought we had seen the last of on the 5th of May 1945, when Denmark was liberated after 5 years of German occupation. But it seems we’re not that lucky.
A Nazi group exists in Denmark again, and leftwing extremists like Antifa contribute by putting up swastikas in the streets of Aarhus. While the craft was nicely done, it was swastikas nonetheless, a symbol I do not want in my city under any circumstances.
Then, there seems to be some confusion as to where Nazism belongs in the political spectrum. That is understandable, for probably no political group in Denmark (save the youth branch of Venstre, who recently held a meeting with them) would tolerate their company.
For this reason, it’s important to make clear that Nazism (the full name of the political party was ”Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei”, which translates to ”National Socialist German Workers Party”), also according to their own understanding, is an extreme lef… >>>
