Birger Furugård
Birger Furugård | |
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Born | 8 December 1887 |
Died | 4 December 1961 (aged 73) |
Birger Furugård (8 December 1887 – 4 December 1961) was a Swedish politician and
In March 1931 Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were invited to speak at public meetings in Sweden, but the police chief in Stockholm refused to give permission.[2]
Until 1933 Furugård was the main leader of the Swedish extreme right, and he was portrayed by his followers as future Führer of Sweden (Swedish: riksledare) in the event of a Nazi seizure of power. In 1933 the second-in-command Sven Olov Lindholm formed the National Socialist Workers Party (NSAP), rapidly superseding Furugård as the most prominent Nazi leader in Sweden.[1] In the Swedish press and the public he was often called "Deje-Hitler". Furugård was later sentenced to two months in prison for defaming Criminal Police Superintendent Alvar Zetterquist.[3]
Furugård disbanded his party in 1936, following a meagre performance at the national election earlier that year.[1]
After the war, Furugård continued his work as a veterinarian. When Dagens Nyheter interviewed him in 1951, the "ex-Führer in Molkom" was described as a broken man. The newspaper noted that Furugård admitted that there had been atrocities in Hitler's Germany, but refused to accept the existence of the gas chambers.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-909384-11-8.
- ^ (6 May 2005), Dagens läsning nr: Hitlers svenska soldater-5 Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Birger Furugård". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ Dagens Nyheter: 22. 1 September 1951.
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