National Socialist Swiss Federation

The National Socialist Swiss Federation (NSSB) was a political party in Switzerland that is part of the front movement .

history

In 1941 the well-known frontist Franz Burri applied for membership in the SS . When this was rejected by Reinhard Heydrich , Burri resigned from the National Movement of Switzerland (NBS) in protest and founded the National Socialist Swiss Federation.

However, on June 19, 1941, the Swiss police carried out a strike against the fronts. Over 130 frontists were arrested. Burri and others fled to the German Empire , and the National Socialist Swiss Confederation dissolved.

literature

• Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success . (PDF; 342 kB) Univ. Bern, Historical Institute, thesis [Brigitte Studer], 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 (also 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 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich ).

Web links

• National Socialist Federation of Switzerland in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives