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Shift to the right in Europe – is there a risk of a return to the period between the world wars?

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.

Image source: Map: Watson
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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Image source: Environment Agency/European Commission
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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Image source: Environmental Protection Agency PAP
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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Image source: German Historical Museum, Berlin
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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Image source: helmutcaspar.de
“Fight the World Enemy”: The Nazi inflammatory newspaper Der Stürmer regularly published anti-Semitic articles and cartoons.
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Image source: AP
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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