Johannes Dafinger, Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistent, Postdoc) at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg and 2025/26 Fellow of Historisches Kolleg, Munich. M.A. in History from LMU Munich, PhD from Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam. “Second book” project on support for Apartheid South Africa from Germany and Austria, 1948–1994. Publications i.a. on transnational cultural and academic relations in the Nazi period, on National Socialist and far right concepts of Europe, and on right-wing terrorism in transnational perspective.
- Transformationen des Rechtsextremismus in Österreich, Special Issue, Zeitgeschichte 50/4 (2023) (edited together with Margit Reiter), DOI: https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737015691.
- A Transnational History of Right-Wing-Terrorism: Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900, London/New York: Routledge, 2022 (edited together with Moritz Florin), DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105251.
- A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler: Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence. London/New York: Routledge, 2019 (edited together with Dieter Pohl), DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114446.
The Transnational Far Right and Apartheid South Africa in the Post-War Period
The Transnational Far Right shared an interest in the Apartheid system in South Africa and Namibia between 1948 and the early 1990s and entertained relations with like-minded activists in Southern Africa as well as with state officials. While my research is primarily focused on the German-speaking Far Right and Apartheid South Africa, this presentation provides the opportunity to give an overview of what we already know about the global pro-Apartheid movement. I will be looking at transnational relations of the Far Right which included partners from South Africa and Namibia, at spaces of communication and exchange on Apartheid ideology and policies, and at key figures driving these interactions.