1st Edition

Nordic Fascism Fragments of an Entangled History

Edited By Nicola Karcher, Markus Lundström Copyright 2022
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Nordic Fascism is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries. Transnational cooperation between radical nationalists has especially been the case in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, where fascism has not only developed through interdependent processes but also through interactions between and beyond national boundaries, and where “racial relationship”... Read more

Foreword: Nordic Fascism and the Story of Coalescing Asteroids

Roger Griffin

The Nature of Nordic Fascism: An Introduction

Nicola Karcher and Markus Lundström

1. Early Nordic Fascism and Antisemitic Conspiracism

Sofie Lene Bak and Terje Emberland with contributions from Heléne Lööw and Oula Silvennoinen

2. National Socialisms in Clinch: The Case of Norwegian National Socialists in Interwar Germany

Nicola Karcher

3. A Pragmatic Revolutionary: R. Erik Serlachius and Fascist Visions of Society and Community

Oula Silvennoinen

4. Nordic Heretics: A National Socialist Opposition in Norway and Denmark

Claus Bundgård Christensen and Terje Emberland

5. Hidden Knowledge and Mythical Origins: Atlantis, Esoteric Fascism and Nordic Racial Divinity

Gustaf Forsell

6. Esoteric Nordic Fascism: The Second Coming of Hitler and the Idea of the People

Mattias Gardell

7. Window to Europe: Finland and Nordic Fascist Networks During the Cold War

Tommi Kotonen

8. Ethnocultural and Racial Ambiguities of National Socialist State-Building: Finland and the Nordic Resistance Movement

Daniel Sallamaa and Leena Malkki

Biography

Nicola Karcher is a historian and an associate professor in social science at the Østfold University College, Norway.

Markus Lundström is an economic historian and an associate professor in sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden.