Volkspartei der Schweiz (VPS, "People's Party of Switzerland") was a Swiss neo-Nazi political party founded in 1951 by Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Erwin Vollenweider.[1]
The party was one of the driving forces behind the foundation of the New European Order and boasted Hans Oehler amongst its leading members.[2] It published its own paper Courrier du Continent, although this later became the personal journal of Amaudruz.[3] Although an important group on the international neo-Nazi scene VPS did not gain any real influence at home and eventually fizzled out.[4]
The group has no connection to the similarly named Swiss People's Party.
References[edit]
- ^ 'Adolf Hitler tat sein Möglichstes'
- ^ Macklin, Graham (2007). Very Deeply Dyed in Black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of British Fascism After 1945. I.B. Tauris. p. 111. ISBN 9781784530587.
- ^ Skenderovic, Damir (2009). The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945-2000. Berghahn Books. p. 280. ISBN 9781845455804.
- ^ Skenderovic, The radical right in Switzerland, p. 279