Krupp fuels far-right narratives in Germany

Tomasz Kamusella

Krupp fuels far-right narratives in Germany

Tomasz Kamusella

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In the north-eastern German city of Greifswald, the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg’s minimal acknowledgment of its patron’s crimes against humanity, committed during the Second World War, indirectly feeds into the political climate that facilitates the meteoric rise of the far-right AfD party. This calculated institutional forgetfulness nurtures extremist revisionism, highlighting the crucial intersection of memory politics and momentous political shifts in contemporary Germany.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	New Eastern Europe
Publication status	Published - 18 Dec 2025

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Krupp
Nazism
Far-right
Far-right extremism
Greifswald
Germany
Nuremberg trials
Authoritarianism

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Krupp in Greifswald: on the perils of forgetting about the Holocaust
Kamusella, T. D., 18 Jun 2019, New Eastern Europe.
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Krupp fuels far-right narratives in Germany

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Krupp in Greifswald: on the perils of forgetting about the Holocaust

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