The Nazi “New Europe”: Transnational Concepts of a Fascist and Völkisch Order for the Continent

Europa and the bull decorated the front cover of a special edition of Illustrirte Zeitung Leipzig in December 1944.¹ The kidnapped princess who had already served in ancient Greece as an allegory for Europe appeared this time on a glossy magazine which was devoted to the cause of a National Socialist “New Europe.” A big part of the magazine consisted of advertisements of private German companies avowing themselves to a Nazi-dominated Europe. The aircraft company Focke- Wulf, for example, presented the building of military airplanes as a contribution “to solve the great tasks of the day, the fulfillment of which