Alliance for people and home

The Federation for People and Homeland (BVH) was a right-wing conservative political organization in Switzerland that is part of the front movement .

history

In March 1933 the Bund für Volk und Heimat was founded in Langenthal .

However, at the end of 1933 a split occurred when some members began to sympathize with National Socialism.

At the end of June 1936, the BVH dissolved and recommended its members to join the Swiss Patriotic Association .

Political orientation

The BVH saw itself as a patriotic association of like-minded people who wanted to defend Swiss federalism , economic liberalism , Christian values ​​and democracy.

The BVH fought against Bolshevism , the trade unions and parliamentarism.

literature

• Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success . (PDF; 342 kB) Univ. Bern, Historical Institute, licentiate thesis, 2002; Slightly abridged in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte , 01/03, ISSN  0005-9420 , pp. 3–55.
• Beat Glaus: The National Front. A Swiss fascist movement 1930–1940 . Benziger, Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1969; at the same time dissertation at the University of Basel .
• Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945 . Flamberg / Zurich 1969; at the same time dissertation at the University of Zurich .