The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific; religious and political features; which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism. Lacking positive norms and values; the Nordic idea depended on the opposition against everything deemed un-Nordic. Völkisch Nordicism shared with conventional forms of nationalism the enmity with Judaism and Bolshevism and – to a lesser extent – with Anglo-Americanism and Catholicism. Beyond that; it constituted a mythological counter narrative that combined the idea of spiritual kinship with biological lineage; on Pagan as well as on Christian grounds.
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