Allgermanische Heidnische Front

The Allgermanische Heidnische Front (AHF) was an international extension of the Heathen Front associated with Varg Vikernes. It served both as a vehicle for distributing his writings and as an organization seeking to combine Germanic heathen revival with National Socialist politics. The book presents its reach cautiously: the AHF announced divisions across several countries, but its membership and practical influence remained uncertain, and its online presence could make a loosely connected network appear more substantial than it was.

Origins and Political Program

The AHF was launched by Varg Vikernes as a wider branch of the Heathen Front. At the time, his creative work included political tracts, mythology, and fiction, while his writings were distributed through the AHF. Its ambitions extended beyond religious revival: Vikernes envisaged a Europe reconstructed as a heathen National Socialist utopia. The program described in the book excluded Jews, political dissidents, homosexuals, and bisexual men, making its political project explicitly exclusionary.

The organization’s program was written by Vikernes. It blended orthodox National Socialist doctrine with neo-Heathen and anti-Christian ideas, alongside an emphasis on environmentalism. This combination placed ancestral religion and national identity within a political framework rather than presenting the AHF simply as a religious association. The Heathen Front’s stated purpose was to promote heathenism, nationalism, and Germanic folk solidarity on religious and political levels; the AHF extended that outlook across national borders.

Network and Methods

The book lists AHF divisions in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Iceland, and Germany, with affiliated subdivisions in Russia, Finland, and the United States. Its concentration on websites offered a way for a small organization to project an international presence: a single person with a computer and modem could create an impressive-looking site, while scattered email contacts could resemble a coordinated network. The same method could also help the group reach younger people, whom the author identifies as its likely online constituency.

The AHF’s public or institutional shape was not easy to verify. The Heathen Front officially denied that Vikernes led it, and the book notes that this denial may have helped keep him out of legal trouble: a Norwegian prisoner could not legally lead a political group. In the Heathen Front’s early period, its mailing address was the same as Vikernes’s private prison post-office box. That arrangement would have made effective leadership difficult, while also meaning that prospective members’ letters could be read and registered by the authorities. Whatever his formal position, his authorship of the program and the strong mark he left on the organization are clear in the account.

Scale and Prospects

The AHF’s actual membership could not be reliably determined. Its divisions offered little information, and the author cautions that National Socialist groups commonly exaggerate membership figures. The book suggests that a Swedish division might have consisted of a handful of core members surrounded by a less active outer circle, but presents this as a reasonable scenario rather than verified membership data.

The author describes the AHF as potentially more impressive online than on the ground, while also warning against dismissing small extremist organizations solely because their numbers may be limited. The organization’s prospects depended, in the book’s assessment, on whether it could turn Burzum fans into political activists or connect them with more militant groups and scenes. Its significance therefore lay not only in how many members it could document, but in its attempt to make music, writing, heathen identity, and political organizing reinforce one another.