National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark
The Danish National Socialist Workers' Party (Danish: Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti, DNSAP ) was, a Danish national socialist political party and during the Second World War.
History
Given the success of the NSDAP in the German Reichstag election 1930 DNSAP was founded on 16 November 1930. In the 30s it was mainly followers of the affected by the world economic crisis agriculture. She had little resonance among the population since the defeat against Prussia in 1864 anti German set.
The party referred openly to the Nazi party and took over from her the swastika, the Nazi salute, the designation SA for the party 's paramilitary organization, and even the Horst Wessel song in a version translated into Danish. The DNSAP pursued clearly anti -Semitic goals. It was initially led by Cay Lembcke, under which the number of members was limited to a few hundred followers. Even with the Danish parliamentary elections in 1932 he was able to achieve any success. Finally, Lembcke was replaced in 1933 by the physician Frits Clausen, who concentrated his party activities on his home region in northern Schleswig, where the DNSAP also received the most support. In the elections of 1939, the party won three seats with 31,000 votes then in the Folketing, which corresponded to 1.8% of the votes cast. At this time it had about 5,000 members.
The German invasion on 9 April 1940 and following their occupation of Denmark was supported by the DNSAP. The end of 1940 drew the German Reich plenipotentiary in Denmark, Cécil from Renthe Finch, the establishment of a new Nazi- dominated government considered, on the basis of previous cooperation with the Danish government even if the DNSAP this should however be postponed until after the war already received a lot of financial and political support from Germany. Unlike Quisling in Norway and Mussert in the Netherlands Clausen was never involved in power. In the further course had the DNSAP instrumental in the formation of the Danish SS units. When the DNSAP but at the general election in 1943 reached only 43,000 votes, Frits Clausen was retired and sent to the Eastern Front.
The party was officially disbanded after the liberation by the Allies in May 1945, the National Socialist ideology disappeared almost completely from the Danish society. Nevertheless, some individuals continued to work under the old party name. Today's Danish National Socialist Movement (Danish: Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Bevægelse ) goes back in its origins to the DNSAP.