Paul van Tienen

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.

Van Tienen (left) in 1964

Biography

Until 1945

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

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

1. Mudde, Cas (22 February 2003). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester UP. pp. 117–18. ISBN 9780719064463. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
2. "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.

External links

• "Rechts-Extremisme in Nederland", a 1953 dossier on far-right politics by the General Intelligence and Security Service