ABSTRACT
No fascist movement succeeded in establishing a firm foothold in Sweden during the interwar period. Fascist movements first appeared in the early 1920s, the first being the Swedish National Socialist Freedom League founded in 1923 by the Furugård brothers. The Furugards’ movement remained local to Värmland, while the first major attempt to create a national fascist movement came from the Swedish Fascist Militant Organisation. At the end of the twenties the SFKO and the Furugard National Socialists merged to form the Swedish National Socialist Party, with Birger Furugård as Leader, and Sven Olov Lindholm as deputy. Lindholm left a strong personal stamp on the party, rooting his fascist ideology deeply in a romantic literary conception of Swedish history and culture, heavily derived from nineteenth-century and contemporary Swedish poets and historians.
