Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today

Georg Schuppener is Professor at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia and at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany. He is the winner of several academic prizes, including the Theodor Frings Prize of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and he is author of numerous publications on the history of language, culture, and science.

• Introduction, 1. Germanic Culture and Germanic Myth on the Far Right: Research to Date and Unanswered Questions, 2. The Reception of Germanic Culture on the Far Right, 3. The Far-Right Use of Norse-Germanic Mythology, 4. Aims, Causes and Consequences of the Far-Right Appropriation of Germanic History and Culture, 5. Far-Right Symbols Referring to Germanic Cultural History, 6. Violent Messages on Far-Right Stickers and T-shirts with References to the Germanic Tribes, Afterword