National Socialist Dutch Workers Party

The Nationaal - Socialistische Nederlandsche Arbeiderspartij ( NSNAP ) was a Dutch National Socialist Party Post 1931 until 1941.

The NSNAP was founded in 1931 by Ernst Hermann van Rappard ( 1899-1953 ). The little explored Party leaned close to the German Nazi Party and also built a SA. However, it came in the party as in the whole fascist- Nazi spectrum of the Netherlands to numerous disputes and splits from personal and political reasons. So after 1933 were three parties under this name against each other.

NSNAP - Van Rappard

The called " Rijksleider " party leader Ernst Herman van Rappard faced a total of less successful party, especially since a large number of small groups cavorted in this spectrum. However, the most successful fascist National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was the " Nationaal - Socialistische Beweging " ( NSB) under Anton Mussert. The NSNAP had its focus on both sides of the German -Dutch border. She kept as close as possible to the German model, and represented, in contrast to a number of competing parties rectified, a militant anti-Semitism, while the NSB even Jews were members. Later, they even advocated a merger of the Netherlands in the National Socialist German Reich and led temporarily the abbreviation " Hitler Beweging " in the name. After the party ban van Rappard operated in the SS in 1949 sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to a life sentence.

NSNAP - Smit

This party was led by Adalbert Smit and was funded by a National Socialist millionaire. In 1933 it merged with the Fascist League " De Bezem ". After fierce intra- party squabbles that led to the demise of this wing, took over in 1933 Anton Schouten leadership. He could but the organizational and financial decline of this part of the NSNAP not stop, but it got worse, so that this party disappeared in 1935.

NSNAP Major Kruyt

This wing of the party, led by Albert van Waterland shortly after the foundation, headed by the former colonial officer Major Cornelius Kruyt ( 1869-1945 ). The party headquarters was located in Heemstede. Kruyt was initially from 1928 to 1933, most recently in a leading position in the " Verbond van nationalists " active. From 1933 to 1941, he then led a NSNAP elimination under his name, the most successful among the party groups under this name. Under the Dutch, who lived in Germany, this party seems to have a great deal are well appreciated.

In July 1933, the party member M. van den Heuvel founded as a country manager for Germany in Mülheim an overseas department of NSNAP - Kruyt, the first in the Ruhr created local groups, then also in the Rhineland, as in Reydt. Then Van den Heuvel put an officer to build the Party, the County of Bentheim H. te Brake in Nordhorn, where te Brake had founded there in May on behalf of the Dutch empire line, a local group, for the Emsland H. Janssen in Fehndorf or for Gronau K. de Vos Glanerbrug ( NL).

Since the second half of 1933, the NSNAP - Kruyt was particularly active in the area and the County of Bentheim linksemsischen bog communities. In August 1933, found with Country Director van den Heuvel and National Secretary F. Domsdorf from Duisburg to meet in Nordhorn place where the local local group the driving force in the region was. It then took place successful advertising campaigns in the lower county, so in Wilsum, Itterbeck or Emlichheim. In September 1933 was followed by a local group in Schüttorf own SA, in and Nordhorner local group called a local branch of the Rhine in the cathedral country in November 1933 to life. The Nordhorner local group had in January 1934 to 105 members, while it should be at that time been in Germany 4000-5000. However, the Grafschafter Kreisleiter te Brake moved immediately to Mussert movement, then the NSNAP fought fiercely in Bentheim country so that party leaders Kruyt came to Nordhorn in October 1934, to support his ailing party.

The way back in 1940 by the German " Reich Governor " Arthur Seyss-Inquart decision made a summary of all Nazi groups in the Netherlands in the NSB opposed Kruyt, but could not prevail ultimately. On January 1, 1941, the NSNAP was forcibly transferred to the NSB. Kruyts family moved after the war to Germany.

A severe blow to the in the German border region to the Netherlands relatively successful party was the decision of the German government in December 1933, the NSNAP in Germany to withdraw any promotion and to adopt a uniform prohibition against the party members to avoid foreign policy irritation with the Netherlands. At the same time thus ended a press coverage of the Dutch small party, which deprived her an important advertising opportunity among the exiled Dutch.

Overall, however, the NSNAP failed to win a greater significance in relation to the NSB.

Swell

  • Schüttorfer newspaper No 178 of 2 August 1933.
  • Schüttorfer Zeitung No. 213 of 12 September 1933.
  • Newspaper and advertising journal, New House, No. 122 of 29 May 1933.
  • Newspaper and display sheet No. 209 of 8 September 1933.
  • Lower Saxony State Archives Osnabrück Rep 450 Bent II LA No. 412
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