Metapedia

Project

The first section was made ​​available online, the Swedish metapedia on 26 October 2006. The German-language section went online in May 2007 and contains tens of thousands of products. By far the largest language section is the Hungarian; now there are over a dozen languages ​​.

According to the company Contacts " NFSE Media AB, Sweden" is responsible for the website of metapedia based in Linköping. The company is operated by Lennart Berg. The IP address of presence is the American company " SoftLayer Technologies Inc." to you, which has its headquarters in Dallas.

German language version

Content and orientation

Metapedia claimed in the project, " on truths and facts write [ to ] and not about what the politically correct majority of writers keeps it and imposed their readers." Although was political agitation and ideological proselytizing after the self- understanding of the metapedia undesirable, but still contribute unique historical revisionist and the Nazi regime trivializing trains ruled the constitutional protection NRW in his report of 2008.

About the metapedia articles Holocaust judges of the constitutional protection NRW, with the formulations will trying to " pull the Holocaust in a subtle way in doubt [ to ] by suggesting a real scientific investigation was not possible in the applicable criminal law ." It should be " give the impression that there was in fact no systematic destruction of the Jews ", it is " also circumscribed the deportation in euphemistic way." In the article on Kristallnacht in 1938 will be " denied that the attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions were done on official arrangement " and it would be " consequences of the various pogroms playing down ".

The social scientist Thomas Pfeiffer sees the metapedia as well as the similar Encyclopædia Germanica as an "attempt to present fairly extremist ideas in reputable garment". They are " more likely the demand for broad impact, in fact they appear to be projects with like-minded. "

The prefix " meta " refers to the term " meta-politics ". By this is meant that the conquest of the company before the policy starts in the attainment of intellectual thought leadership. The founder of this policy approach can be found in the " New Right ". The " verbal camouflage " of the project with the help of these concepts with the aim of a large width effect " succeeds on metapedia limited ". On the page for more ideas of new rights, including ethnic pluralism and Euro - nationalism are represented, the site is " dedicated to the pro-European cultural struggle ". Furthermore, footnotes find New Right organizations such as the Thule - Seminar and the Society for Free Journalism ( GPP ).

The Frankfurter Rundschau described the metapedia as " alternative (...) for very right -minded people who want to protect their world view from annoying factual knowledge ."

Legal disputes

Because of the right-wing extremist content, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution has to inform the competent law enforcement authorities. With regard to a link to a download option of the Nazi propaganda film " The Eternal Jew " whose rights belonging to the Federal Republic of Germany, determined the Berlin Criminal Police Agency for copyright infringement. In addition, an indexing method was introduced at the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young.