National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway

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The National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (Norwegian: Norges Nasjonalsosialistiske Arbeiderparti, NNSAP) was a minor political party founded in 1932 inspired by the German NSDAP. The party was founded in 1932, and dissolved in September 1939.[1]

History

Ideologically modelled on the German NSDAP, many members of the party, and notably the founder and first leader Adolf Egeberg had organisational and personal ties to the NSDAP. The party gained financing from Eugen Nielsen (1884 – 1962), publisher of Fronten, from 1932 until a schism in 1934 due to conflict over Nielsen's primarily anti-Masonic focus, with the party seeking to develop its National Socialist ideology.

In early 1933 the NNSAP saw a surge of Oslo gymnasium students joining the party. The party had around a thousand members at its height, but was quickly overshadowed by Nasjonal Samling (NS), which was founded by Vidkun Quisling in May 1933. Several of the party's original and early members, including Egeberg, at some point left the party to join NS. The surge in the NNSAP had reportedly played a key role in pushing forward the formation of Nasjonal Samling itself.

Despite being modelled on the NSDAP, the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway has been described as a relatively loosely organised association.

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