Histoire de l'extrême-droite au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg au XXe siècle

The earliest model of a right-wing movement in Luxembourg is provided by Catholic fundamentalists, who strove to reintroduce the Ancien Régime and the hegemony of the Church, and to re-Christianize society by rejecting the nation state. The theoretician of this model was Jean-Baptiste Esch, the editor of the Catholic newspaper "Das Luxemburger Wort" (1888-1940) which was inspired by "austro-fascism" and embraced its concept of a Christian corporatist state in which non-Christian parties were forbidden. Emphasizes the role of "Das Luxemburger Wort" as a channel for latent anti-Jewish prejudice, which it provided with a theoretical base and wide circulation. Shows that the Nationalunio'n Party, founded by Lucien Koenig in 1910, stood for fundamentalist nationalism, tinged with xenophobia and antisemitism inspired by Barrès, Maurras, and Mussolini. Analyzes Nazi movements in Luxembourg between 1933-44 and corporatism, antisemitism, and anti-annexationism between 1940-48. Examines, also, the xenophobic and racist discourse of the extreme right-wing movements in the 1980s-90s. 1. éd. 659 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm