Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarepartiet

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Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarepartiet
National Socialist Workers' Party
Party flag of the NSAP (from 1936).
Party leader Sven Olov Lindholm
founding January 24, 1933 in Stockholm
resolution June 1950
Youth organization Nordisk ungdom
newspaper The Svenske National Socialists
Alignment National Socialism

The National Socialistiska Arbetarepartiet (NSAP, "National Socialist Workers' Party") was a Swedish political party that first propagated National Socialism and then stood for an independent form of fascism .

history

1926-1933

The Fascist People's Party of Sweden ( Sveriges Fascistiska Folkparti ) was founded on September 3, 1926. Konrad Hallgren, a former German officer, became its chairman. Other important members were the officers Captain Sven Olov Lindholm and Lieutenant Sven Hedengren.

In 1929 a delegation, including Hallgren and Lindholm, took part in a party conference of the NSDAP in Nuremberg . Upon their return, the party took the name National Socialist People's Party of Sweden ( Sveriges Nationalsocialistiska Folkparti ).

In 1930 the party merged with the Swedish National Socialist Farmer and Worker Party ( Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Bonde- och Arbetarpartiet ). This was founded in 1924 under the name Swedish National Socialist Freedom League ( Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Frihetsförbundet ) as Sweden's first National Socialist movement. Birger Furugård and his brothers Sigurd and Gunnar were the founders. Sigurd and Gunnar met Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff as early as 1923 . 1924 had freedom League in Farmer- and Labor Party renamed.

In 1930 the Sveriges Nationalsocialistiska Folkparti also merged with the New Swedish People's League and became the National Socialist Party of Sweden ( Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Partiet ).

1933-1945

The Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarepartiet was founded in 1933 by Sven Olov Lindholm , who had left the Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Partiet (SNSP, "Swedish National Socialist Party") (founded in 1930) after differences of opinion on personnel and ideological issues. Outwardly, the NSAP was a simple reflection of the NSDAP in its early days ; German Nazi propaganda was repeated in the party newspaper Den Svenske Nationalsocialisten , a (extremely marginal) replica of the Hitler Youth was created with the youth organization Nordisk Ungdom ("Nordic Youth") and the same party symbol was used with the swastika .

In ideological terms, however, there were greater differences, as the NSAP emphasized socialist and anti-capitalist goals much more strongly in its rhetoric and was therefore more close to Gregor and Otto Strasser's cross-front strategy . However, direct criticism of Adolf Hitler , as formulated in most of Otto Strasser's writings from the 1930s, was avoided.

The party moved further and further away from the ideology of Hitler's fascism and largely broke away from its reference to Germany in favor of an independent, Swedish-influenced fascism. In 1938 the swastika was replaced as a party symbol by the Vasakärven (" Wasa - Garbe "), an emblem of the former King Gustav II Adolf . At the end of the year it was renamed Svensk Socialistisk Samling (SSS, "Swedish Socialist Collection") and almost all National Socialist references were abandoned. In 1943 a national congress of the party was held in Uppsala . The clash of counter-demonstrators and members of the SSS led to the "Easter riots".

The party fell into decline during World War II and was eventually disbanded in 1945.

One of the most famous members was the later founder of IKEA Ingvar Kamprad .

In the event of a German occupation of Sweden, the party planned to build concentration camps in Sjöbo and on Stora Karlsö for the deportation of Swedish Jews and communists. The party was among the first to deny the Holocaust , in May 1945 in Den Svenske Folksocialisten .

See also

literature

  • Heléne Lööw: Nazisms in Sverige 1924–1979: Pionjarerna, Partierna, Propagandan . Ordfront, Stockholm 2004, ISBN 91-7324-684-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalsocialismen i Sverige 1924–1950
  2. ^ Karl N. Alvar Nilsson: Svensk överklass och högerextremism under 1900-talet. Stockholm 2000, ISBN 91-86474-34-0 , pp. 155-156.
  3. ↑ I. Kamprad, B. Torekull: Historien om IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad berättar för Bertil Torekull. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-46-17065-0 .
  4. ↑ Kamprad djupt inblandad i nazistisk rörelse. Sveriges Radio - Ekot, 23 August 2011, accessed 18 May 2016 (Swedish). (Kamprad deeply involved in Nazi movement)
  5. ↑ Förintelsen var på väg till Sverige Expressen (accessed December 9, 2018)
  6. ↑ Heléne Lööw: Nazismen i Sverige 1924–1979. Stockholm 2004, ISBN 91-7324-684-0 , p. 108.