National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden)

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

The party was founded in 1933 by Sven Olov Lindholm, who had left the Svenska Nationalsocialistiska Partiet ( SNSP, "Swedish National Socialist Party " ) to personal political and ideological disagreements. Externally, the NSAP in its early days was a simple image of the NSDAP; as National Socialists ( " Nordic Youth" ) was in the party newspaper The Svenske repeated the German Nazi propaganda, with the youth organization Nordisk Ungdom created a ( very marginal ) replica of the Hitler Youth and used with the swastika the same party symbol.

Ideologically, there was, however, greater differences, since the NSAP in their rhetoric socialist and anti-capitalist goals much more pronounced and thus rather the cross- front strategy Gregor and Otto Strasser was close. Direct criticism of Adolf Hitler, as it was formulated in the 1930s writings about the majority of Otto Strasser, however, was avoided.

The party withdrew further and further from the ideology of Hitler fascism and triggered largely by its reference to Germany in favor of an autonomous, Swedish embossed fascism. 1938, the swastika was replaced as party symbol by the Vasakärven ( " Wasa - sheaves " ), an emblem of the former king Gustav II Adolf. End of the year followed renamed Svensk Socialistisk Samling (SSS, "Swedish Socialist collection") and the task of almost all Nazi references. This, however, was the decline of the party during the Second World War did not prevent them and was finally dissolved in 1945.