Recent elections in Austria, parts of Germany, and France have shown that the right is on the rise in Europe. Are we at risk of a political relapse similar to the First and Second World Wars? Analysis.
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Democracy on Defense: States that established an authoritarian regime during the interwar period (1920s: light blue, 1930s: dark blue).
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Police operation on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1934. Members of the radical right-wing leagues almost managed to storm the Bourbon Palace, where the Chamber of Deputies met.
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Viktor Orbán (left), here in 2001, was prime minister from 1998 to 2002. He has been in power again since 2010 and has since turned Hungary into a so-called illiberal democracy.
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Right-wing populist parties in Europe that lead government, participate in government, are the strongest faction in parliament, or reached the largest number of voters in recent elections.
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A protest rally in 2017 in Lublin against the reform law of the then ruling PiS party, which affected the independence of the judiciary and the Supreme Court.
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A line of unemployed people in the courtyard of the Hannover employment office, May 1932. On the wall you can see the slogan “Vote for Hitler.”
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“Fight the World Enemy”: The Nazi inflammatory newspaper Der Stürmer regularly published anti-Semitic articles and cartoons.
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Adventures of National Socialism: Hitler Youth at a meeting in Karlsruhe, 1933.
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The war in Ukraine finally brought an end to the long period of peace in Europe.
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