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![[League National Youth flag]](../images/s/se}fnu.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 01 December 2012
League National Youth (Förbundet Nationell Ungdom) is one of the newest neo-Nazi movements in Sweden. It was founded in 2011, but the name is actually borrowed from several earlier Nazi and neo-Nazi youth organizations, the last of these being the National Youth, youth wing of the Swedish Resistance Movement, which was dissolved and merged into the main organization in 2006 [1]. Like many other similar Swedish groups, it uses a flag in national colors, with a large yellow Jera rune on blue field. The ratio seems to be about 3:5, but it is possible that 1:2 is also sometimes used. The symbol might be not entirely symmetrical, but currently there are no photos of the flag which would reveal enough details to confirm that (the same goes for the ratio). The flag was seen in the town of Eskilstuna on 01 May 2012, at the demonstration organized jointly by the League National Youth and Party of the Swedes [2, 3]. There are also several photos of the flag in the Facebook photo album of the movement [4, 5].
Sources:
[1] Expo
Skola website — page about the League National Youth
[2]
Party of the Swedes website — report about the demonstration in Eskilstuna
on 01 May 2012
[3] An independent ultra-rightist
report about the demonstration in Eskilstuna on 01 May 2012
[4] Facebook photo album
of the League National Youth
[5] Facebook photo album
of the League National Youth
Tomislav Todorovic, 01 December 2012
![[First NSF flag]](../images/s/se}nsf.gif)
image by António Martins
![[Second NSF flag]](../images/s/se}nsf2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic
The Nationalsocialistisk Front (NSF) uses a blue flag with a yellow swastika (the colors being exactly those of the Swedish flag). NSF is currently Sweden's largest (and most talked-about) neo-Nazi party. A few notes on the symbolism of this flag:
The later flag of the National Socialist Front, which was adopted some time between August 1999 and February 2003 (see dates given in two paragraphs of the FOTW page se}naz.html [Editor's note: That's this page, but it is not clear where on this page those dates are given], replaced the swastika with a large blue shield, fimbriated yellow and charged with a sword pointing upwards, superimposed over the Vasa-sheaf, all in yellow.
The shades of the flag colours were clearly the same as those of the national flag, as can be seen on this photo: http://web.archive.org/web/20071029110946/www.nsfront.info/upload/2007-05-01-Kalmar13.jpg, while this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20071110184505/www.nsfront.info/upload/2007-04-21-hitlermiddag1.jpg, shows that the same was true for the previous flag, whose copies hoisted indoors were obviously kept there even after the flag change.
The size of shield can be compared with the flag width from the following photos: http://web.archive.org/web/20071011090712/www.nsfront.info/upload/kebnekaise19.jpg, http://web.archive.org/web/20071107212106/www.nsfront.info/upload/kebnekaise20.jpg, http://web.archive.org/web/20071031020709/www.nsfront.info/upload/2006-06-06-sthml-nsf4.jpg.
Some important details of the shield are shown here: http://web.archive.org/web/20071031020655/www.nsfront.info/upload/2006-06-06-sthml-nsf2.jpg, http://web.archive.org/web/20071110184633/www.nsfront.info/upload/2007-04-21-hitlermiddag6.jpg, http://web.archive.org/web/20071022122905/www.nsfront.info/upload/2007-07-07-zundel-arleskog.jpg, and http://web.archive.org/web/20071029112050/www.nsfront.info/upload/2006-06-06-sthml-nsf8.jpg,
and the stand-alone emblem (used on the clothes) can be seen here: http://web.archive.org/web/20071022122815/www.nsfront.info/upload/2007-07-07-zundel-gunther.jpg.
According to Wikipedia, the National Socialist Front was dissolved in 2008. At the same time, its former
members founded a new party with different symbols.
Tomislav Todorovic, 18 December 2009
![[VAM flag]](../images/s/se}vam.gif)
image by António Martins, 23 September 1999
![[VAM flag]](../images/s/se}vam_s.gif)
image by António Martins, 23 September 1999
Nazism Exposed | Flags and Symbols (Pål's site) has errors regarding this flag.
The symbol in this flag is not the Aryan Nations
shield but a sword and the werewolf symbol.
The sword should be pointing up, not down. The symbol should not be placed in a
circle. The background colour should be red, not blue.
Marcus Wendel, 13 August 1999
Logo: a seal-like patch with a flying Swedish flag
and "SD", all blue and yellow.
António Martins, 27 May 1998, quoting Nazism Exposed | Flags and Symbols (Pål's site)
Their new (?) logo is a hand holding a torch with a Swedish pattern in the flame.
Marcus Wendel, 13 June 1999
![[VAM flag]](../images/s/se}nrp.gif)
image by Mark Sensen; recolored by António Martins
Nordiska Rikspartiet (NRP) is a Swedish neo-Nazi party and I've seen a white flag with a sun cross in black (?) centered on the flag in photos of their demonstrations.
Marcus Wendel, 23 September 1999
![[Red flag]](../images/s/se}nr2.gif)
image by Peter Hagh
Nordiska Rikspartiet has a blood red flag with a black sun cross.
I'm a member of Nordiska Rikspartiet since 1988. The flag you have currently on your page, the sun wheel with swords, is a Norwegian
symbol. One other party, Nationalsocialistisk Front, that you have the flag
for on your page, has changed their symbol. They don't use the swastika anymore.
Pater Hagh, 06 February 2003
![[Flag of Swedish Resistance Movement]](../images/s/se}sr.gif)
image by Pete Loeser and Tomislav Todorovic, 20 November 2011
![[Flag of Swedish Resistance Movement]](../images/s/se}sr2.gif)
image by Pete Loeser and Tomislav Todorovic, 04 March 2014
The Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) is a Swedish, militant Neo-Nazi
organization that exists in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and Linköping. The Leader
is Klas Lund — a former member of the White Aryan Resistance (VAM) who is convicted of manslaughter.
The aim of the Swedish Resistance Movement is to establish a Nordic government by
revolution. The organization says their fight will require bloodshed. Like many
neo-Nazis and white nationalist groups, they call themselves 'the resistance'
because they consider themselves to be fighting Jewish-Marxist tyranny.
The organization is mainly known for their links to heavy criminality. According
to the Swedish Security Service, the SMR is the neo-Nazi group that is the
biggest threat against Sweden's inner security. Their main tactics are to hand out
leaflets about crimes committed by foreigners and immigrants in Sweden,
to arrange public rallies, and to train their members in martial arts and other
physical activities such as marches and paintball. Their camps in the Swedish
woods have left some people to believe that they are training for a civil war or a
revolution. In November 2003, the Swedish Security Service raided homes of
leading members and among them was Klas Lund, who was later sentenced to prison for
illegally possessing a firearm.
Pete Loeser, 20 November 2011
I can see that one flag has the emblem on a plain green background, while the
other flag has it on a green "diamond" (square standing on a tip) on a
green-and-white horizontal triband. Both the emblem (on both images) and the rim
of the square are black and show narrow white edging.
The emblem is a "stick-figure" arrow (i.e. made up of three strokes at one end
fanning out at an acute angle, with the middle one longer) pointing up, and/or
(because these symbols often have dual meaning) the Nordic rune Tiwaz "ᛏ" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwaz_rune).
The up-pointing arrow is sometimes used by
political parties worldwide that espouse Christian-Democracy views; the Tiwaz rune is #12 in
von List’s (crackpot) version of the futhark, the one cherished by
neo-Nazis, and it is used as an emblem by several such groups, namely
the Thule-Seminar.
I note also that the flag uses a slightly darker shade of green,
and wonder if this is meaningful. I also wonder what the
difference is between these two flags. (Pete’s text neither mentions the
flags nor any other usages of the emblem.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Resistance_Movement
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 November 2011
Here's the source picture. Nice and big to see details.
The flag with the plain field seems to have the ratio 1:2, and the flag with the triband
seems to be 3:5. He used RGB 51-102-51 for the plain-field flag and RGB 51-153-102
for the triband.
Pete Loeser, 24 November 2011
I have noticed the outline too, but it did not look black to me, just darker
than the rest of the field. Also, the outlined diamond looked darker than the
rest of the field, but lighter than the outline. My conclusion, in absence of
more images of the flag, is that the diamond was sewn onto the flag, making the
area less transparent and therefore look darker. Of course, it is possible
that we find more photos of the flag which will prove Antonio's impression to be correct.
Tomislav Todorovic, 26 November 2011
There was a discussion whether there is a black outline around the rune on
the plain green flag as well. At the time when the image was created, I thought that
there was none. However, after a better analysis of the source
image,
I think that there actually is an outline, barely visible and often smaller
than on the other flag, although that seems
not to be universally applied. Other sources were discovered which reinforced
this observation, like
here and here.
Tomislav Todorovic, 04 March 2014
The Swedish Resistance Movement (Svenska Motståndsrörelsen) was founded in 1997. During the following years, the organization was "transplanted" to all other Nordic countries. In 2016, it was renamed into the Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen); the name change was performed simultaneously by all the national branches. In Sweden, it has been a registered political party since 2015.
Source:
Nordic Resistance Movement on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement
Regarding the triband flag, a closer look at the current source photos, as well as others available online (too numerous to quote them all), reveals that the white fimbriation is actually just a bit narrower than the black border of the central emblem.
Sources:
[1] Nordic Resistance Movement on Wikipedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nordic_Resistance_Movement
[2] Dagens Samhälle newspaper website:
https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/styrning-och-beslut/demokrati/289-valkandidater-kopplas-till-hogerextremism-sd-stryker-namn-fran-listor/
Tomislav Todorovic, 25 March 2023
![[Flag of Party of the Swedes]](../images/s/se}svp.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 08 January 2012
In 2009, when I wrote my contribution about the flag of the
National Socialist Front, a neo-Nazi political party from Sweden, I ended it
with a statement that the party was dissolved in 2008, with its former members having
founded a new party with different symbols. This time, I will deal with the
new party I had mentioned then — the Party of the Swedes.
The Party of the Swedes (Swedish: Svenskarnas parti; abbreviation: SvP) was founded
in 2008 as the People's Front (Swedish: Folkfronten) by
former members of the previously disbanded National Socialist Front. In
2009, during preparations for the elections which were held the
next year, it was revealed that a leftist party was already registered
under the same name, so this party was renamed and registered under
its current name. The name change did not affect the flag, which
remained the same as the one adopted when the party was founded: a black cross
composed of four Algiz runes, fimbriated white, on a yellow field. The
party website claims that the composite symbol, called the
Aegishjálmur (horror helmet), was an ancient Nordic battle symbol, with the
rune itself symbolizing both life and death. The yellow field is said
to symbolize the sun and is the same shade as that from the Swedish
national flag.
Sources:
[1] Wikipedia page about the
Party of the Swedes.
[2] Party website — explanation of the party symbol.
The described flag is shown above, which is created by using the files available for download from the
party website.
The color shades recommended there were approximated with the closest
web-safe colors in order to make black really look black and yellow to
have the same shade as on the FOTW image of the Swedish national flag.
Out of numerous photos showing the flag on the web, the one which
might give the best view can be found at the
Metro news portal.
(Image)
A smaller version of the same image can be found at the party website.
(Image)
In the end, let me note that the URLs from the party website are
given for vexillological purposes only, with no intention of
advertising the users of the described flag.
Tomislav Todorovic, 08 January 2012
