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Paul van Tienen (10 January 1921 – 1995 probably inLa Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain) was a Dutch Nazi duringWorld War II and a far-right politician after the war, convicted at least twice for his political activities.
Born inYogyakarta, Van Tienen joined theWaffen-SS duringWorld War II and became anUntersturmführer.[1] He was active on theEastern Front[2] in a propaganda detachment.[3]
After the war, Van Tienen continued his political activism and became involved with theEuropean Social Movement ofPer Engdahl, whom he cited as a political ally in 1953. Unlike many of his collaborating colleagues he never lost his right to vote or his Dutch citizenship, since he was a minor when he joined the SS.[4] A member of the Dutch organization of former collaboratorsStichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten ("Foundation of Former Political Delinquents"), he went on to organize a political party associated with that organization, theNational European Social Movement,[1] which was dissolved by theSupreme Court of the Netherlands in 1954[5]/1955.[6] His activities with the NESB had led to an arrest in 1953, when he andJan Wolthuis were sentenced to two months' imprisonment for running an organization considered a successor to the NSB.[7]
Throughout the 1950s, Van Tienen, a bookseller inUtrecht, published revisionist articles in an irregularly appearing periodical, theNederlands Archief der Conservatieve Revolutie ("Dutch Archive of the Conservative Revolution"). He also operated a mail-order book-selling business and was arrested and convicted in 1965 of insulting a segment of the population since he soldantisemitic literature.[8][9] He was sentenced to three months imprisonment and three months of probation. Van Tienen had lost his passport due to his SS involvement and fled to Spain, likely with false papers,[10] where he operated apenny arcade, and died sometime in 1995.[2]
