Conny Axel Meier
Conny Axel Meier is national secretary of Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa, a prominent anti-Islam organisation in Germany.[1]
Activities
'Revival of the White Rose'
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In July 2012, Meier was one of eight 'Islam critical' activists who claimed to be reviving the anti-Nazis resistance White Rose (Weiße Rose) movement, active between 1942-43.
In an interview, he claimed that 'today through historical misrepresentation' the original White Rose movement was 'being pushed into proximity with so-called anti-fascists' and actually 'was a national-conservative, liberal movement'.
The attempt to reclaim anti-fascist history for the far-right in the context of the level of stigma associated with Nazism in Germany, given its history, pre-figured the rhetoric of the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA, which emerged in 2014 and produced a logo showing the swastika being thrown in the bin along with the flag of Islamic state, the Communist hammer and sickle and also the symbol of the Anti-Fascist Network.
Another of the so-called revivalists was Marc Doll, a prominent activist in Rene Stadtkewitz's populist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam Die Freiheit (Freedom) party.
Affiliations
Contact
- Twitter ConnyMeier
Notes
- ↑ Citizens' Movement Pax Europa, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, accessed 20 October 2009.
