National Movement of Switzerland
The National Movement of Switzerland (NBS ) was one of Switzerland and part of the front movement political party.
History
The NBS was established in June 1940. The aim was to create an organization that summarize the shattered front beings again and a single party should bring forth according to the German model.
On October 10, 1940, there arrived in Munich under the direction of Klaus hill to a conference with the front leaders Hans Oehler, Benno Schaeppi federally faithful Swiss National Socialist ideology ( BTE ), Ernst Burri, Arthur Leonhardt of the Swiss Society of Friends of authoritarian democracy ( SGAD ) and Max Leo Keller of the NBS.
There was a conflict between Leonhardt and cellar on the management of the new organization. At this time no members of the Federal Social Workers' Party ( ESAP ) were present.
Keller used personal contact with Rudolf Hess. It succeeded cellar to convince the party officials of the NSDAP present them to support him, and he was appointed as the new head of the NBS. It was agreed the union of the BTE and the ESAP with the NBS.
On October 22, 1940, the BTE broke up and went to the NBS. With the guidance Alfred Zander, Ernst Hofmann and Max Leo Keller were entrusted. The SS - member Klaus Hill was commissioned by the Nazi party line so to monitor the new organization and if necessary intervene.
The NBS had 2224 members, among them was Wolf Wirz.
On 10 September 1940, the Federal President Pilet Golaz received representatives of the NBS for the purpose of " orientation about their political Zielgebung ", which met from right to left on disapproval. On learning of the party statutes of the NBS, the Swiss Federal ban on 19 November 1940, the NBS. The ban sparked violent protests against the German Bundesrat and the National Front.
According to instructions from Germany, Dr. Ashton of the German consulate in Zurich, the NBS illegally on. For this, the NBS such as the Swiss Schools (SS ), various fencing frets, the Social People's Party ( SVP), the covenant Nationalist Swiss students, the League of Struggle spear, the Federal Workers 'and Peasants' Party was split into different local groups with various names ( EABP ) and the National Bernese sports club (NBS ).
The Swiss Schools (SS) should serve as a precursor of a Swiss SS and carry out acts of sabotage in an invasion of Germany to Switzerland.
On 10 June 1941, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office led a strike against the illegal activities of the NBS. Keller was arrested. For lack of evidence, he was released on bail, after which he left Switzerland in November 1941 to Germany, where he was director of the Reich Works Hermann Goering in Berlin and Weimar.
On August 24, 1941, at a conference in Stuttgart under the direction of Klaus Hill. Because you do not reach agreement, Ernst Burri and Arthur Leonhardt then founded the National Socialist Swiss Confederation ( NSSB ).
Political orientation
The NBS target one of Switzerland connector on the National Socialist German Reich. Model was the NSDAP. The NBS was anti- liberal, anti -Semitic and anti-Bolshevik.
The members of the NBS undertook 10 commandments which were very similar to the 10 commandments of the NSDAP: