Talk:Junge Freiheit

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This article ignores the fact tja Junge Freiheit is an extremist newspaper from the far right. It's not liberal or anything. It's extremist.

Sounds to me as if this wikipedia article has been written by the junge freiheit editors themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.177.234.247 (talk) 21:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I reverted this edit by User:Barry Troost who was blocked on the german wikipedia for edit wars about this subject. -- memset 09:37, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

go to www.npd.de if you know the german language and want to see something that is really from "far right". There's nothing ideologic about that newspaper and they distance themselves from right parties and organisations. Helmut Markwort who is also mentioned in this article praised the Junge Freiheit. He is Chief Editor of the German magazine "Focus" which you probably would call "liberal". Of course there's much data to be added if you take a look onto the German wikipedia page. But it's wrong that the JF is from far right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.252.208 (talk) 22:11, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Liberal-conservative

JF is a rather classic liberal-conservative publication. One of its most well known supporters, Alexander von Stahl, the former Attorney-General of Germany, is a well-known liberal politician.

The Editor-in-Chief, Dieter Stein, says this:

"Die 'Junge Freiheit' ist, würde ich sagen, im Grunde genommen eine liberal-konservative Wochenzeitung, die in einer Tradition steht, wenn Sie auch die großen Namen nehmen, die bei uns schreiben, der alten 'FAZ' und der 'Welt'."[1] Marina Taurus (talk) 04:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

That's one opinion. Here are others:

• ...the right-wing extremist weekly Junge Freiheit - the repository of contemporary völkisch thought...[2]
• the neo-fascist weekly Junge Freiheit[3]
• Nolte's most consistent advocates are periodicals such as the newspaper Junge Freiheit which describes itself as a newspaper in Germany for “patriotic right-wingers.” [4]
• ...the extreme-right weekly paper Junge Freiheit...The Junge Freiheit paper is regarded as the leading mouthpiece of the so-called “new right” in Germany and has, as a result, been put under surveillance by the intelligence services of another German state, Baden-Württemberg....[5]
• ...Junge Freiheit (for which I write regularly) ...Junge Freiheit has annoyed both the political Left and the bogus Right-Center, both of which endorse the curbing of “fascistic” publications. In Germany and in other European countries, “fascist” means that which the Left does not want said. Enlightened Germans hurriedly bring up the Nazi past whenever conversation turns to a politically-unfashionable topic...Junge Freiheit says that “extremist” actually means “rechtsaussen [anything thought to be right of right-center].”...To its credit, Junge Freiheit has responded to this anti-fascist bullying by seizing the banners of freedom and German national dignity both at the same time...Junge Freiheit is defending itself by retaining a distinguished jurist and longtime public servant, Alexander von Stahl, .. Paul Gottfried [6]
• In the last couple of weeks I was in touch with several German friends about these issues. First they all said that Junge Frieheit is almost universally seen as an extremist neo-Nazi group that plays very carefully with the words it uses so as to get it’s message out without having to be too explicit....My main point is that everyone who knows about such topics in Germany knows that Junge Freiheit is a very antifreedom newspaper and that they play a game with the public, to broadcast the racist and extremist ideas of the German past but without being too closely tied to them. Tom G. Palmer [7]

So I don't think we can blithely say that it is a liberal-conservative paper. It's better just to leave off their political affiliation rather than misrepresent it. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 06:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)