Europa: The Last Battle Explained

Director:Tobias Bratt
Producer:Tobias Bratt
Editing:Tobias Bratt
Runtime:12 hours
Country:Sweden
Language:English

Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017 English-language Swedish ten-part neo-Nazi propaganda film directed, written and produced by Tobias Bratt,[1] a Swedish far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Nazi movement.[2] [3] It promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, including Holocaust denial,[4] and has been promoted across multiple social media platforms.

Narrative

The film 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[5] [6] and that Jews control the world's money supply and are conspiring to engineer the downfall of the white "Aryan" race by encouraging immigration and interracial relationships.[7] 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 Stalin supposedly having Jewish wives proves that Jews were controlling him.

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.[8] [9] 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.[10]

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", adding, "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."

Promotion

The film has been promoted by white supremacists[11] [12] and antisemitic conspiracy theorists,[13] [14] the British conspiracy newspaper The Light[15] and QAnon conspiracy theorists on Telegram. It has also been shared on platforms such as Instagram, BitChute, Rumble,[16] TikTok and the Telegram chat of Disclose.tv, a German disinformation outlet with a following that includes Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis.[17] [18] YouTube and Facebook have blocked the film from being uploaded, but links to the film on other sites can be shared.

As of June 2023, Twitter was running advertisements for major brands such as Disney, Microsoft and ESPN next to tweets from verified users sharing long clips from the film.[19] [20]

Notes and References

  1. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/troubles-with-identity/ Troubles with Identity - The Philosophical Salon (written by Slavoj Žižek)
  2. Web site: 13 October 2021 . Antisemitism in the Digital Age: Online Antisemitic Hate, Holocaust Denial, Conspiracy Ideologies and Terrorism in Europe . September 23, 2023 . Hope not Hate . 34 . November 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231116055750/https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/google-report-2021-10-v3.pdf . live .
  3. Web site: The Nordic Resistance Movement . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240102232245/https://www.adl.org/resources/report/nordic-resistance-movement . 2024-01-02 . 2024-01-09 . . 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, ..
  4. Web site: Pope . Felix . March 2, 2023 . TikTok is still hosting Nazi propaganda, despite warnings . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326115940/https://www.thejc.com/news/news/tiktok-is-still-hosting-nazi-propaganda-despite-warnings-4gQbtSbh62F740bRGs8Kpy . March 26, 2023 . 2023-03-26 . The Jewish Chronicle.
  5. Web site: Piper . Ernie . Wildon . Jordan . October 22, 2021 . Telegram COVID-19 Conspiracy Group Rife With Antisemitism . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230713001534/https://www.logically.ai/articles/antisemitism-on-telegram . July 13, 2023 . 2023-07-13 . . en . 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..
  6. Web site: Malliagros . Thiago Vahia . February 26, 2024 . Europa: The Last Battle – the antisemitic documentary going viral among the far right . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240313131017/https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/02/europa-the-last-battle-the-antisemitic-documentary-going-viral-among-the-far-right/ . March 13, 2024 . March 14, 2024 . The Skeptic.
  7. Web site: Doerer . Kristen . August 9, 2021 . From Flat Earth to Holocaust Denial, the Conspiracy Theorist Podcast That Nearly Scored an MMA Legend . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240302022031/https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/from-flat-earth-to-holocaust-denial-the-conspiracy-theorist-podcast-that-nearly-scored-an-mma-legend/ . March 2, 2024 . March 2, 2024 . . 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....
  8. Web site: Gilbert . David . 26 May 2021 . QAnon's Antisemitism Is Finally Being Displayed in Full . 2023-03-26 . . en . 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. . March 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326115940/https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv7eq/qanons-anti-semitism-is-finally-being-displayed-in-full . live .
  9. Gill . Gerard . 2021-12-08 . Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels . . en . 10.5210/fm.v26i12.11830 . 1396-0466 . 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... . free . February 8, 2024 . April 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427100756/https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11830 . live .
  10. Web site: Williams . Arron . February 2, 2023 . False: The First and Second World Wars were started by Jewish nationalists trying to create Israel. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240203080510/https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/false-world-wars-1-and-2-were-started-by-jewish-nationalists-trying-to-create-israel . February 3, 2024 . 2023-03-27 . Logically . en-gb.
  11. News: Pantuso . Phillip . 2022-10-04 . White supremacists leave flyers in Chatham and Ulster County . 2023-06-24 . . en-US . June 24, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230624020601/https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/White-Lives-Matter-flyers-Chatham-Ulster-County-17485629.php . live .
  12. News: Hosseini . Raheem . 2023-11-10 . Neo-Nazis are exploiting the Israel-Hamas conflict to stoke another crisis: A 'race war' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231205073807/https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/nazi-antisemitism-israel-hamas-18476691.php . 2023-12-05 . 2023-12-05 . . en.
  13. Web site: Europa The Last Battle . 2023-03-26 . Anti-Defamation League . en . March 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326115940/https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/europa-last-battle . live .
  14. Web site: Smith . Peter . 2022-01-11 . A Holocaust Denier Is Travelling Across Canada Building Up The Country's Newest Far-Right Militia Movement . 2024-03-08 . . en . September 27, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927035730/https://www.antihate.ca/holocaust_denier_travelling_canada_building_up_far_right_militia_diagolon_alex_vriend . live .
  15. Web site: Lawrence . David . 2022-06-30 . Turning Off "The Light": the conspiracist newspaper promoting the far right . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230304134849/https://hopenothate.org.uk/2022/06/30/turning-off-the-light-the-conspiracist-newspaper-promoting-the-far-right/ . 4 March 2023 . 2023-03-04 . . en-GB.
  16. Web site: Paterson . Alex . 2023-10-16 . The RNC is partnering with the Republican Jewish Coalition and Rumble — a virulently antisemitic platform — for the third GOP debate . 2024-08-17 . . en.
  17. Web site: Schumacher . Elizabeth . February 8, 2022 . Disclose.TV: English disinformation made in Germany . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221026033034/https://www.dw.com/en/disclosetv-english-disinformation-made-in-germany/a-60694332 . 26 October 2022 . 2022-10-26 . . en . 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..
  18. Web site: Thomas . W. F. . February 11, 2022 . Telegram: The Social Network Where Conspiracies Meet . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326115940/https://www.logically.ai/articles/telegram-where-conspiracies-meet . March 26, 2023 . 2023-03-26 . Logically . en . 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..
  19. Web site: DeGeurin . Mack . 2023-06-17 . Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos . 2023-06-23 . . en . June 28, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230628122656/https://gizmodo.com/twitter-ads-disney-microsoft-nba-neo-nazi-videos-elon-1850549017 . live .
  20. Web site: Tangalakis-Lippert . Katherine . June 19, 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. . 2023-06-23 . . en-US . June 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230627044912/https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-microsoft-nba-twitter-ads-next-to-neo-nazi-propaganda-2023-6 . live .

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