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Short description: 2017 neo-Nazi propaganda film
Europa: The Last Battle
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Directed byTobias Bratt
Produced byTobias Bratt
Written byTobias Bratt
Edited byTobias Bratt
Release date
  • 2017 (2017)
Running time
12 hours[1]
CountrySweden
LanguageEnglish
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Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017[2] English-language Swedish ten-part[3] neo-Nazi propaganda film[11] created by Tobias Bratt,[12] a Swedish far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Nazi movement.[13][14] It promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, many in relation to World War II including Holocaust denial.[8] The film has been promoted across multiple social media platforms by individual users, particularly white nationalists and conspiracy theorists.[9][13]

Narrative

Europa: The Last Battle promotes various antisemitic conspiracy theories, claiming that Karl Marx was part of a centuries-long plan by Jews to spread communism and take over the world[1][15] and that Jews control the world's money supply[8] and are conspiring to engineer the downfall of the white "Aryan" race by encouraging immigration and interracial relationships.[5] It includes out-of-context quotes from Marx and Moses Hess's book Rome and Jerusalem to promote the idea that Jews are behind the evils of the world, and claims that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin supposedly having Jewish wives proves that Jews were controlling him.[15]

The film also engages in historical revisionism to claim that Jews started World War I and II as part of a plot to establish Israel by provoking the Nazis into acting in self-defence.[3][16][17] It also claims that Jews caused Germany's defeat in World War I, which is commonly referred to as the stab-in-the-back myth, and that Adolf Hitler was fighting against a global Jewish plot.[16]

Gregory Davis, a researcher at the United Kingdom-based anti-racism group Hope not Hate, said the film "denies the proven reality of the Holocaust whilst providing justifications for the violent antisemitism that fuelled it. Its mix of blatant falsehoods and slanted portrayal of real events gives it no historical legitimacy whatsoever, and it serves only to demonise the Jewish people and whitewash the crimes of the Nazi regime."[8]

Promotion

The film has been promoted by white supremacists[2][18][19] and antisemitic conspiracy theorists,[2][20] the British conspiracy newspaper The Light[21] and QAnon conspiracy theorists on Telegram.[25] It has also been shared on platforms such as Instagram,[13] BitChute,[4] Rumble,[26] TikTok[8][15] and the Telegram chat of Disclose.tv,[7] a German disinformation outlet with a following that includes Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis.[7][27][24] YouTube and Facebook have blocked the film from being uploaded, but links to the film on other sites can be shared.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Piper, Ernie; Wildon, Jordan (22 October 2021). "Telegram COVID-19 Conspiracy Group Rife With Antisemitism" (in en). https://www.logically.ai/articles/antisemitism-on-telegram. "The link to the antisemitic documentary Europa: The Last Battle, a 12-hour film that among other claims asserts that Jews created communism with a goal of 'total world domination', has been shared multiple times in the chat, sometimes multiple times per day." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Europa The Last Battle" (in en). https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/europa-last-battle. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gilbert, David (26 May 2021). "QAnon's Antisemitism Is Finally Being Displayed in Full" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/qanons-anti-semitism-is-finally-being-displayed-in-full/. "But last week, the underlying antisemitic content that GhostEzra had always been pushing came to the fore in a series of posts on their Telegram channel that left no doubt about just how extreme the account was. It began by promoting the neo-Nazi film "Europa – the Last Battle" a 10-part film that claims Jews created Communism, and deliberately started both world wars as part of a plot to found Israel by provoking the innocent Nazis, who were only defending themselves." 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Siapera, Eugenia (24 July 2023). "Alt Tech and the public sphere: Exploring Bitchute as a political media infrastructure" (in en). European Journal of Communication 38 (5): 446–465. doi:10.1177/02673231231189041. ISSN 0267-3231. "For example, the antisemitic and neo-Nazi film Europa – the Last Battle (2017), a 10-h film which is banned from YouTube, is found across several Bitchute channels.". 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doerer, Kristen (9 August 2021). "From Flat Earth to Holocaust Denial, the Conspiracy Theorist Podcast That Nearly Scored an MMA Legend". https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/from-flat-earth-to-holocaust-denial-the-conspiracy-theorist-podcast-that-nearly-scored-an-mma-legend/. "The "flat_earth_truther_6_million" account has 17 video posts of the film "Europa: The Last Battle," a neo-Nazi revisionist film that paints Jewish people as conspiring the downfall of the white "Aryan" race through encouraging immigration and interracial relationships..." 
  6. ↑ "QAnon's Antisemitism and What Comes Next" (in en). 17 September 2021. https://www.adl.org/resources/report/qanons-antisemitism-and-what-comes-next. "By May 20, he was posting links to neo-Nazi propaganda film "Europa: the Last Battle" and to the Wikipedia page for "crypto-Judaism."" 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Thomas, W. F. (12 January 2022). "Disclose.tv: Conspiracy Forum Turned Disinformation Factory" (in en). https://www.logically.ai/articles/disclose.tv-conspiracy-forum-turned-disinformation-factory. "Some share outright neo-Nazi propaganda, encouraging others in the Telegram chat to watch Europa – The Last Battle." 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Pope, Felix (2 March 2023). "TikTok is still hosting Nazi propaganda, despite warnings". https://www.thejc.com/news/news/tiktok-is-still-hosting-nazi-propaganda-despite-warnings-4gQbtSbh62F740bRGs8Kpy. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 DeGeurin, Mack (17 June 2023). "Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos" (in en). https://gizmodo.com/twitter-ads-disney-microsoft-nba-neo-nazi-videos-elon-1850549017. 
  10. ↑ Tangalakis-Lippert, Katherine (19 June 2023). "Advertisers are returning to Twitter after Linda Yaccarino calmed fears over content moderation. But now brands like Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA have ads placed next to neo-Nazi propaganda." (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-microsoft-nba-twitter-ads-next-to-neo-nazi-propaganda-2023-6. 
  11. ↑ [4][3][5][6][7][8][9][10]
  12. ↑ Emmery, Rien (28 October 2024). "Beruchte neonazi-documentaire blijft nieuwe fans bereiken" (in nl-BE). https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/maatschappij/beruchte-neonazi-documentaire-blijft-nieuwe-fans-bereiken/. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Antisemitism in the Digital Age: Online Antisemitic Hate, Holocaust Denial, Conspiracy Ideologies and Terrorism in Europe". 13 October 2021. p. 34. https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/google-report-2021-10-v3.pdf. 
  14. ↑ "The Nordic Resistance Movement". https://www.adl.org/resources/report/nordic-resistance-movement. "Films viewed by the NRM in such sessions include the Swedish-produced antisemitic propaganda miniseries, Europa – the Last Battle, which praises Hitler and claims that Jews started both World Wars, and Dennis Wise's revisionist film, Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told." 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Malliagros, Thiago Vahia (26 February 2024). "Europa: The Last Battle – the antisemitic documentary going viral among the far right". https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/02/europa-the-last-battle-the-antisemitic-documentary-going-viral-among-the-far-right/. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Williams, Arron (2 February 2023). "False: The First and Second World Wars were started by Jewish nationalists trying to create Israel." (in en-gb). https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/false-world-wars-1-and-2-were-started-by-jewish-nationalists-trying-to-create-israel. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gill, Gerard (8 December 2021). "Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels" (in en). First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v26i12.11830. ISSN 1396-0466. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11830. Retrieved 8 February 2024. "In the QAnon channel, a poster opines that "The power of the mainstream media is waning ... People are instead finding alternative media sources ... Real people, not algorithms, are sharing documentaries like Europa: The Last Battle ...". These information sources are respectively an anti-Semitic revisionist history of WWII...". 
  18. ↑ Pantuso, Phillip (4 October 2022). "White supremacists leave flyers in Chatham and Ulster County" (in en-US). Times Union (Albany). https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/White-Lives-Matter-flyers-Chatham-Ulster-County-17485629.php. 
  19. ↑ Hosseini, Raheem (10 November 2023). "Neo-Nazis are exploiting the Israel-Hamas conflict to stoke another crisis: A 'race war'" (in en). San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/nazi-antisemitism-israel-hamas-18476691.php. 
  20. ↑ Smith, Peter (11 January 2022). "A Holocaust Denier Is Travelling Across Canada Building Up The Country's Newest Far-Right Militia Movement" (in en). https://www.antihate.ca/holocaust_denier_travelling_canada_building_up_far_right_militia_diagolon_alex_vriend. 
  21. ↑ Lawrence, David (30 June 2022). "Turning Off "The Light": the conspiracist newspaper promoting the far right" (in en-GB). https://hopenothate.org.uk/2022/06/30/turning-off-the-light-the-conspiracist-newspaper-promoting-the-far-right/. 
  22. ↑ Gilbert, David (18 October 2021). "QAnon Is Becoming Even More Antisemitic" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/qanon-is-becoming-even-more-antisemitic/. 
  23. ↑ Gilbert, David (5 November 2021). "Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/qanon-dallas-jfk-michael-brian-protzman-negative48/. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Thomas, W. F. (11 February 2022). "Telegram: The Social Network Where Conspiracies Meet" (in en). https://www.logically.ai/articles/telegram-where-conspiracies-meet. "Similarly, in the group for Disclose.tv, a sketchy news aggregator site that began as a paranormal and conspiracy theory forum, users shared links to other channels filled with neo-Nazi propaganda." 
  25. ↑ [17][3][22][23][24]
  26. ↑ Paterson, Alex (16 October 2023). "The RNC is partnering with the Republican Jewish Coalition and Rumble — a virulently antisemitic platform — for the third GOP debate" (in en). https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/rnc-partnering-republican-jewish-coalition-and-rumble-virulently-antisemitic-platform-third. 
  27. ↑ Schumacher, Elizabeth (8 February 2022). "Disclose.TV: English disinformation made in Germany" (in en). https://www.dw.com/en/disclosetv-english-disinformation-made-in-germany/a-60694332. "Piper and Thomas found what they described as "hate speech and Holocaust denial" flourishing in Disclose.TV's groups on the Discord app and Russia-based messaging service Telegram." 



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