Front spring
The front spring refers to the temporary upswing experienced by right-wing extremist groups close to fascism in Switzerland (the so-called front movement ) in spring 1933. The term Frontenfrühling was mentioned for the first time in late April 1933 by the Neue Aargauer Zeitung .
The most influential of these numerous parties and associations was the National Front , which retained some influence in Swiss politics until it dissolved itself in 1940. Numerous other groups that arose in the front spring of 1933, on the other hand, disbanded a short time later. The cantonal election in Zurich in September 1933, in which the National Front received almost 20% of the votes, can be regarded as the climax and at the same time the turning point of the spring front.
Socially, the sudden upswing of right-wing forces can be traced back to Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in neighboring Germany a few weeks earlier. Hitler exercised a certain suggestive power also on the Swiss. With the radical goals of the NSDAP emerging more and more clearly , the political success of the "fronts" in Switzerland quickly faded away.
Individual proof
- ^ Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945. Flamberg, Zurich 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich), p. 15, footnote 1
literature
- Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945 . Flamberg, Zurich 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich ).