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'''Neuropa''' is the name of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] vision of a new [[Europe]] - Neu is new in [[German language|german]]. It was a vision of a new unified Europe. This would be organised with a [[racial]] [[hierarchy]] dominated first by Germans, then by other Germanic peoples ([[scandinavia|Scandinavians]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] and [[Belgians]].) Under these would be other nationalities, with the [[Slavic peoples|slavonic]] peoples [[Poles]], [[Czechs]] etc. reduced to lower class manual labour.
[[Jews]], [[Gypsy|Gypsies]] and people of [[Africa]]n ancestry were to be deported or exterminated.
The term was revived in the context of [[€uroMayDay]].

The [[African American]] (and [[Pan-Africanism|Pan African]]), [[W.E.B. DuBois]] wrote an article "Neuropa: Hitler's New World Order" in [[1941]], where he discussed comparisons between his experiences in Germany in [[1892]] - [[1894]] and his trips there in [[1928]] and [[1936]]. He remarked that there was broader basis of democracy than before the first world war, when society was run for the benefit of the monarchy, the nobility and the rising capitalists in finance and industry. He discusses the [[precarity]] which was suffered more acutely by middle class civil servants and clerks who were "wracked by fear of being klevelled down to workers". DuBois focusses on the mass education campaigns of the Nazis, which followed those of the [[Russia]]n [[Bolshevik]]s Italy|Italian]] [[fascist]]s. However by substituting germanism for class struggle, he was ablt gain the support of big business, and his [[racist]] programme appealed to [[middle class]] germans who saw [[jews]] as "intellectual rivals and commercial competitors" However behind "all this smoke and propaganda" DuBois saw a more significant and older phenomenon, the [[Rationalisation Movement]] which had developed the german economy as a [[planned economy]].

"Neuropa" is also the name of an Australian synth-pop band.

Neuropa the band does not subscribe or support any of Hitler's views on a New World Order⏎
''Neuropa" is also the name of an Australian synth-pop band.''

'''Neuropa''' is a [[neologism]], first used in English in 1941 by the prominent [[Pan-Africanism|Pan Africanist]] [[W.E.B. DuBois]]. His article "Neuropa: Hitler's New World Order" discussed comparisons between his experiences in Germany in [[1892]] - [[1894]] and his trips there in [[1928]] and [[1936]]. The term did not come into general use in English, perhaps because of unfamiliarity with the play on words. Neu is [[German language|German]] for new, and 'Europa' is the word for Europe in German and many other European languages.

The term was never used in [[Nazi Germany]]. The term 'Neue Ordnung'  (New Order) was the most prominent of the terms used to describe Nazi ideas about the future organisation of Europe, but it also applied to the new social order in Germany itself. Racial hierarchy, [[ethnic cleansing]], [[Generalplan Ost|German resettlement in the East]], the creation of Nazi puppet states, and gigantic infrastructural projects, were all considered.

The (largely secret) plans of Nazi Germany were not available to W.E.B. DuBois in 1941. He wrote before the United States involvement in the war, but after the occupation of western Europe. In his article, DuBois remarks that there was broader basis of democracy than before the first world war, when society was run for the benefit of the monarchy, the nobility and the rising capitalists in finance and industry. He discusses the insecurity of middle class civil servants and clerks, who were "wracked by fear of being levelled down to workers". DuBois focusses on the mass education campaigns of the Nazis, which followed those of the [[Bolshevik]]s and Italian [[Fascist]]s. However behind "all this smoke and propaganda" DuBois saw a more significant and older phenomenon, the [[Rationalisation Movement]] which had developed the German economy as a [[planned economy]].

Recently the term resurfaced in English, in the context of discussions within [[€uroMayDay]], an anti-capitalist movement. The discussions concern infiltration by the [[New Right]] in such [[social movement]]s. However, Neuropa, as a combination of 'new' and 'Europe', is a play on words in several European languages, and its use does not necessarily indicate ideological intent, let alone a revival of Nazi plans for Europe.

===References===
[http://www.journalnegroed.org/famousauthors.html "Neuropa: Hitler's New World Order"] by W.E.B. DuBois, ''The Journal of Negro Education'',Vol. 10, 380-386, [[1941]]