DIETER STEIN, the editor of Junge Freiheit (“Young Freedom”), a newspaper, represents the German right wing’s thoughtful side, rather than its demagogues. In his office, a poster of Frederick the Great, a Prussian monarch beloved by conservatives, hangs on one wall. Another has a picture of Dresden’s Church of Our Lady—destroyed by the Allied firebombing of 1945, fully rebuilt only in 2005, and today iconic for German nationalists. Above his desk hangs a portrait of Count Claus von Stauffenberg, an army officer executed after trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Mr Stein considers him a conservative patriot, part of a “positive tradition” that Germans can be proud of. He thereby draws a hard line between his newspaper and the neo-Nazi right.
Yet for most of the three decades since Mr Stein founded Junge Freiheit—first as a student newspaper and, since 1994, as a general weekly—the label “right” condemned him to the margins of Germany’s media landscape. In German usage, the term does not include the centre-right. For instance Bild, the largest...Continue reading
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