Vägen Framåt Explained

Founder:New Swedish Movement
Publisher:Riksförbundet Det nya Sverige
Foundation:1932
Political:Far-right
Language:Swedish
Ceased Publication:1992
Publishing Country:Sweden
Issn:0346-4849
Oclc:924810836

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.

History and profile

Vägen 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]

Notes and References

  1. Lena Berggren. Intellectual Fascism: Per Engdahl and the Formation of 'New-Swedish Socialism'. Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 2014. 3. 2. 10.1163/22116257-00302001. free.
  2. Book: Karl Arne Blom. Lilla Marlene. SAGA Egmont. 2018. 978-87-11-70710-4. sv. 56. Copenhagen.
  3. Elisabeth Åsbrink. 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. 2021. 82. 1. 33583834. 231926387. 137. 10.1353/jhi.2021.0006.
  4. Web site: Vägen framåt. Libris. 3 October 2021. sv.
  5. Book: Elizabeth Åsbrink. Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar. Natur & Kultur. 2011. 978-91-27-13340-2. sv. 325. Stockholm.
  6. Book: Conny Mithander. John Sundholm. Maria Holmgren Troy. Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-century Europe. P.I.E.P. Lang. "Let Us Forget the Evil Memories." Nazism and the Second World War from the Perspective of a Swedish Fascist. 2007. 978-90-5201-068-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=PECVrknQOkcC&pg=PA192. 192. Conny Mithander. Brussels.
  7. News: Fascismen bortom mytbildningen. 3 October 2021. Arbetaren. 18 April 2013. sv.
  8. Web site: Tidning "Vägen framåt". Digital Museum. 3 October 2021. sv.

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