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Paul van Tienen

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Van Tienen (left) in 1964

Paul van Tienen (10 January 1921 – 1995[citation needed] probably in La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain) was a Dutch Nazi during World War II and a far-right politician after the war, convicted at least twice for his political activities.

Biography

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Until 1945

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Born in Yogyakarta, Van Tienen joined the Waffen-SS during World War II and became an Untersturmführer.[1] He was active on the Eastern Front[2] in a propaganda detachment.[3]

After the war

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After the war, Van Tienen continued his political activism and became involved with the European Social Movement of Per Engdahl, whom he cited as a political ally in 1953. Unlike many of his collaborating colleagues he never lost his right to vote or his Dutch citizenship, since he was a minor when he joined the SS.[4] A member of the Dutch organization of former collaborators Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten ("Foundation of Former Political Delinquents"), he went on to organize a political party associated with that organization, the National European Social Movement,[1] which was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in 1954[5]/1955.[6] His activities with the NESB had led to an arrest in 1953, when he and Jan Wolthuis were sentenced to two months' imprisonment for running an organization considered a successor to the NSB.[7]

Throughout the 1950s, Van Tienen, a bookseller in Utrecht, published revisionist articles in an irregularly appearing periodical, the Nederlands Archief der Conservatieve Revolutie ("Dutch Archive of the Conservative Revolution"). He also operated a mail-order book-selling business and was arrested and convicted in 1965 of insulting a segment of the population since he sold antisemitic literature.[8][9] He was sentenced to three months imprisonment and three months of probation. Van Tienen had lost his passport due to his SS involvement and fled to Spain, likely with false papers,[10] where he operated a penny arcade, and died sometime in 1995.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mudde, Cas (22 February 2003). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester UP. pp. 117–18. ISBN 9780719064463. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Kroniek extreemrechts: Portretten". Anne Frank Foundation. Retrieved 1 May 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Luykx, P.; Bootsma, N.A. (1987). De Laatste tijd: geschiedschrijving over Nederland in de 20e eeuw. Aula. p. 184. ISBN 9789027417510.
  4. ^ "Drie leiders der N.E.S.B. in hechtenis genomen". Utrechts Nieuwsblad. 24 August 1953. p. 1. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  5. ^ Schans, Wil van der (12 July 2011). Monitor Racisme and Extremisme: Extreemrechts in Amsterdam. Amsterdam UP. p. 17. ISBN 9789085550495. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  6. ^ Art, David (21 February 2011). Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe. Cambridge UP. p. 78. ISBN 9780521720328. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Dutch Sentence 2 Pro-Nazis". The New York Times. 15 October 1953. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Zelfde straf geeist tegen P. van Tienen". Utrechts Nieuwsblad. 2 March 1965. p. 1. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  9. ^ "Fout na de oorlog". Anne Frank Foundation. Retrieved 10 June 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ "Dutch Former SS Absconds" (PDF). Information. 20 (10). Association of Jewish Refugees: 4. October 1965. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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