Hofvijver Fellowship for historian Annelotte Janse to elucidate a seeming paradox

Annelotte Janse © Willeke van Moorselaar - Historian Annelotte Janse  recently received a Hofvijverkring Fellowship  to do research in various American archives for three months. The Fellowship allows her to unravel an apparent paradox: the international collaboration between outspoken ultra-nationalist right-wing extremists. Researching documents in American archives will enrich Janse's dissertation on the internationalisation of (West) German right-wing extremism since the 1960s until 2000, seen from the perspectives of West German and American actors. "I am thrilled to be able to tap into new archives through the HVK Fellowship", Janse says. "The funding enables me to dissect how the shared struggle for the white race in West Germany and the United States has affected right-wing extremist fraternisation, mobilisation, and violence since the 1960s." "During the first years of my PhD research, I discovered that many German right-wing extremists looked to America as an example and source of inspiration. But it is difficult to gauge American reactions to this interest from German sources", Janse explains. Throughout recent history, right-wing extremists have united over concerns vis-a-vis progressive politics, the effects of globalisation and modernisation, and migration flows. But little has been written about the 'nuts and bolts' of organising the shared struggle for the white race.  "It is difficult to gauge American reactions to this interest from German sources", Janse says. She would also like to determine its influence on the international development and spread of right-wing extremism. Thus, there are still a lot of questions that Janse wants to answer. Why did American extremists form alliances with their German counterparts?