Vägen Framåt (Swedish: The Road Forward) was a weekly newspaper published by the New Swedish Movement, a fascist and corporatist nationalist political movement in Sweden founded by Per Engdahl. The paper was in circulation between 1932 and 1992 with some interruptions.
| Type |
|
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | New Swedish Movement |
| Publisher | Riksförbundet Det nya Sverige |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Political alignment | Far-right |
| Language | Swedish |
| Ceased publication | 1992 |
| Headquarters | |
| Country | Sweden |
| ISSN | 0346-4849 |
| OCLC number | 924810836 |
History and profile
editVägen Framåt was established as a weekly newspaper by the New Swedish Movement in Uppsala in 1932.[1][2] The founding editor was Per Engdahl.[3] The publisher was Riksförbundet Det nya Sverige based in Uppsala.[4] Vägen Framåt was published in Stockholm in the period 1935-1937 and in Malmö from 1942.[4]
Between 1937 and 1940 Vägen Framåt temporarily ceased publication.[4] One of the editors was Yngve Nordberg, a friend of Per Engdahl.[5] The paper frequently published articles by Per Engdahl who praised Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.[6] One of his articles dated 1979 formulated the strategy to be followed by the Swedish fascist movement in future.[7] The newspaper folded in 1992.[8]
References
edit- ^ Lena Berggren (2014). "Intellectual Fascism: Per Engdahl and the Formation of 'New-Swedish Socialism'". Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 3 (2). doi:10.1163/22116257-00302001.
- ^ Karl Arne Blom (2018). Lilla Marlene (in Swedish). Copenhagen: SAGA Egmont. p. 56. ISBN 978-87-11-70710-4.
- ^ Elisabeth Åsbrink (2021). "When Race Was Removed from Racism: Per Engdahl, the Networks that Saved Fascism and the Making of the Concept of Ethnopluralism". Journal of the History of Ideas. 82 (1): 137. doi:10.1353/jhi.2021.0006. PMID 33583834. S2CID 231926387.
- ^ a b c "Vägen framåt" (in Swedish). Libris. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Elizabeth Åsbrink (2011). Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar (in Swedish). Stockholm: Natur & Kultur. p. 325. ISBN 978-91-27-13340-2.
- ^ Conny Mithander (2007). ""Let Us Forget the Evil Memories." Nazism and the Second World War from the Perspective of a Swedish Fascist". In Conny Mithander; John Sundholm; Maria Holmgren Troy (eds.). Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-century Europe. Brussels: P.I.E.P. Lang. p. 192. ISBN 978-90-5201-068-7.
- ^ "Fascismen bortom mytbildningen". Arbetaren (in Swedish). 18 April 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ "Tidning "Vägen framåt"" (in Swedish). Digital Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2021.