This article was originally published in Danish on September 22, 2016.

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A Danish passport does not make anyone a Dane! On this basis, nationalists have always rejected the integration of foreigners into Danish society. A people’s community is not based on a random piece of paper, but on a millennia-old community of destiny and culture, where the collective consciousness of the people is expressed in literature, music, art, religion and folk traditions.

The opportunity to become part of the Danish community is something you are given as a cradle gift, but this does not mean that this community is something that will always exist and that you are automatically accepted into at birth. Neither birthright nor language is sufficient. Danishness is not something you can take for granted! Throughout history, the Danish people have always had to fight for their identity, and they still do, and in the same way, the individual must also make a conscious effort to earn a place in the community.

Buying a silly hat and cheering for the Danish national football team or for a “Danish” boxer of anything but Danish origin does not qualify you as a Dane. Being Danish means living in and with the ancient cultural heritage of the Danish people. This heritage is the property of Danish people, created by our ancestors through the chain of generations as a mirror of their soul – and thus also as a mirror of our soul. It is something that no stranger can ever claim or share. It is not something you can learn – it is something you feel.

But a culture is and must be a living thing – something to be lived. If it is not lived, it dies! If Danish people can no longer feel it, no longer nurture and develop it and no longer live in it, it ceases to exist. The Danish literary historian and philosopher Harald Nielsen has said about the homeland:

“The homeland is a thought. When it is no longer thought, it dies”.

The same goes for culture as a whole.

If you just want to live your life in the international pop culture of the American plastic world without caring about your potential Danishness, you are not worthy to call yourself Danish. Being Danish means reading and honoring Danish literature, knowing and singing Danish songs and knowing and passing on Danish history to future generations. Being Danish means being able to identify with the culture, traditions and ways of life of our ancestors and to pass these on so that future generations can grow up Danish and contribute to the further development of this culture by creating within its framework.

Measured with this cubit, it is unfortunately doubtful whether you can still talk about a Danish people at all. Once upon a time, television had two independent surveys on the streets. One was about the Egtved Girl, the other about the Isted Lion. None of the young people questioned had the slightest idea who this girl was or what kind of lion it could possibly be. “Something with a lion in Istedgade,” suggested one, revealing an abysmal lack of connection with the historical awareness of the Danish people who gave Istedgade its name in memory of the Battle of Isted Hede in 1850.

This rootless lack of identity is the result of a conscious effort by those who want to destroy our people and replace Danish culture with a bastardized consumer society where the only value is what comes through the cash registers. In such a society, neither the Egtved Girl, the Isted Lion nor Dybbøl play any role whatsoever. Only purchasing power, the latest fashion and other non-committal variables such as the composition of the national football team and the latest international pop idols count. Everything else only interferes with ‘development’, i.e. the dismantling of the nation state and all values other than those of capital.

Educating young people to a historical awareness of their own identity and national pride – in short, teaching our heritage – used to be a matter of course, but today it has been abolished in schools because it prevents the integration of all the different foreigners who are inevitably left out. Today, there is practically no teaching of national history, literature or music. Danish songs are no longer sung, and our Nordic legends and myths have been completely pushed out of the curriculum. What the school is unable to break down, television children’s programs after school do, where everything is about children in foreign countries, “modern”, broken families, etc.

The Danish people are an ancient people and have fought a long battle for the right to be Danish. Our ancestors came here under difficult conditions when the ice retreated, and for centuries they defended our southern border against the incursions of foreign peoples. We have survived bloody wars against our neighboring countries. We have lost large parts of our natural lands. Our cities have been bombarded, our soldiers killed in unequal battles against superiority and political ineptitude. We have also survived centuries of hardship and misery among the common people and have finally managed to eradicate this misery. It has all come at the cost of deprivation and selfless struggle, yes, many have given their lives so that Denmark could survive and live in freedom.

When you look back today, you have to despair. They were not fighting for the society we see today! What has happened to our freedom and independence, what has happened to Danishness? We live in a society that hands out the assets of the Danish people to foreign and unfamiliar peoples, both abroad and here. We see how criminal politicians are putting our country in debt and destroying the future for future generations, while they have allowed our country to become a colonization area for the peoples of the world! What our ancestors have fought for for 10,000 years, these miserable traitors have given away in less than 50 years! They have destroyed our children’s future and desecrated the memory of our ancestors! All who have fallen for the cause of Denmark must rot in their graves, for in a few years there will no longer be a Denmark! And worse: there will be no one who misses it!

It was a bitter and cold winter night in 1864 when Danish soldiers were forced to retreat from Dannevirke without a fight, betrayed by inept politicians and miserable officers led by de Meza. It was the beginning of a national disaster and everyone felt the tragedy, but in the midst of grief and misery, these Danish men were far happier than their descendants today, for they still felt part of a community, they were connected to their ancestral heritage, and they lived, fought and died in the knowledge of the worth and eternal existence of Danishness. And when Southern Jutland was finally lost, a wave of deep sorrow swept over the country. It was as if you had lost someone close to you. There was a sense of loss, and over the next century, people worked stubbornly and persistently to ensure that the lost land could one day return. Today, all of Denmark is in ruins and in danger of being destroyed within the lifetime of the next generation, and no one gives it a second thought!

Many peoples over the ages have perished in bloody wars that have worn them down and drained them of blood. However, they have perished in dignity. Our people, on the other hand, face a miserable doom, a doom without greatness and without heroism – a doom of decadence and shame! Our people have forgotten what previous generations have fought for. And not only that. The heroes of the past are belittled and ridiculed by human-like creatures who would not be worthy to kiss the dust at their feet!

All noble greatness and selfless power have been pushed aside so that mass man – the most insignificant entity in history – can indulge in a self-centered, unconscious consumerism that in the long run only destroys our living conditions on this planet. This is the worst phenomenon in world history, and if the world survives the current regimes, this period will go down in history as the most shameful and miserable the world has ever seen! It even surpasses the decline of the Roman Empire!

If our struggle is to have any meaning, our first goal must be to fight to lead our people back to their cultural roots, and if we are to succeed, we must necessarily begin within ourselves and become aware of our Danishness!

We must restore the cultural self-awareness of our people by taking the lead and openly acknowledging our heritage and living in accordance with it! We do not want to take anything from anyone. We only want what is considered a natural right of every Negro tribe: a land where we ourselves are masters and where we can live undisturbed in harmony with our cultural heritage – a land where we ourselves reap the benefits of our diligence and labor!

Fighting this battle requires something! First and foremost, it requires that we ourselves have a morality in accordance with our cultural heritage. That we practice the life values we preach. That we make our Danishness a conscious part of ourselves. Only then can we reach for the Danish national soul and hope to find it.

Only in this way can we create the foundation for a new and better Denmark, and if we don’t succeed, we might as well leave the country to the Third World masses.

If we still want to live in the prevailing decadence, if we want to read the trash of ‘democratic’ society and listen to its African rhythms, then we are not worthy of this task and have no prospect of success. We do not want merely cosmetic changes to the present society – we want a new society based on the cultural foundations left to us by our ancestors. Nothing less will do!

Povl H. Riis-Knudsen

Translated by means of AI