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The Allgermanische Heidnische Front (AHF) was an

international neo-Nazi organisation, active during the late 1990s
and early 2000s, that espoused a form of neo-völkisch Germanic
Neopaganism.

It was associated with musician Varg Vikernes.

Flag of the All-Germanic Heathens
Front with Algiz rune
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History

Norsk Hedensk Front (Norwegian Heathen Front) was founded in 1993 based on Vargsmål, a racist
and anti-Semitic book by Norwegian black metal musician and convicted arsonist and murderer Varg
Vikernes. According to the 2003 book Lords of Chaos, the organization officially denied that
Vikernes was in charge, although this may have been to protect him, as Norwegian prisoners were
prohibited from leading political groups. The organization's listed address was the same PO box
Vikerness used in prison.[1]

The Swedish Heathen Front (Svensk Hednisk Front) was a small group formed around 1996.[2]

The German chapter, Deutsche Heidnische Front, was founded in

1998 by Hendrik Möbus.[citation needed] In 2001, the AHF claimed
chapters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany,
the United States, Canada, Russia[3] and Flanders.[4]

There was also a short-lived English Heathen Front closely

associated during its inception with the British Movement but later
Flag of the Russian Heathen Front
linked by Searchlight, the anti-fascist monthly, to Tom Gowers, an with Algiz rune
officer of the British National Party based in the East Midlands,
and to the militant odinist group Woden's Folk.[5]

By 1999, Heathen Front's website was selling Vargsmål.[6]

In a 2009 interview with Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Vikernes states: "I have never formed or
been a member of such organisations".[7]

The organisation with time became a forum for neo-Nazis and heathen nationalists. In 2005 the
Allgermanische Heidnische Front was closed down. Its members spread to other organisations.[2]

Ideology

The group's ideology was part of the loosely defined Neo-völkisch movement sometimes known as
Odinism. The organization described its specific ideas as "Odalism", derived from the Germanic rune
Odal (ᛟ). This movement rejects conventional academic research on history and archaeology,
instead interpreting Germanic mythology as esoterically transmitted via ancestry.[8]

The Heathen Front espoused neo-Nazism, white supremacism and anti-semitism.[9][10][11] A 2001
report by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism
describes the Svensk Hednisk Front (Swedish Heathen Front – SHF) as "an emerging Nazi
organization" with an ideology blending "Odinism, anti-Christianity and antisemitism."[12]

See also

Odinism

Social Darwinism

Traditionalist School

References

g. ^ Moynihan, Michael J.; Søderlind, Didrik (2003). Lords of chaos : the bloody rise of the satanic
metal underground (New ed.). Feral House. p. 177. ISBN 9781932595529. Retrieved
25 March 2019.

k. ^ a b Western Esotericism in Scandinavia, 2016, p.384, p.621

m. ^ Website about the Russian Heathen Front in Russian language. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

n. ^ Gardell, p. 307, referring to the now defunct homepage:

http://www.heathenfront.org/chap.htm

p. ^ The English Heathen Front, Searchlight "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on
2011-06-04. Retrieved 2012-02-11.

q. ^ Ward, Eric K.; Lunsford, John; Massa, Justin (Fall 1999). "Black Metal Spreads Neo-Nazi Hate
Message" . Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

s. ^ Midtskogen, Rune (4 July 2009). " "Greven" angrer ingenting" ["The Count" regrets nothing]
(in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 August 2009.

t. ^ Gregorius, Frederik (2006). "The "Allgermanische Heidnische Front" and Old Norse Religion".
In Andrén, Anders (ed.). Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives : origins, changes, and
interactions : an international conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004 . Nordic Academic
Press. pp. 389–392. ISBN 9789189116818. Retrieved 25 March 2019.

v. ^ Searchlight Magazine: Nazi black metal leader arrested in the US

gw. ^ Turn It Down Archived 2007-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

gg. ^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2007-11-18. Retrieved 2006-07-10.

gk. ^ Antisemitism Worldwide 2000/1 - Sweden Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine

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