Dutch Fascist Union

During the interwar period, Dutch fascists were split into three groups: followers of Italian fascism (or classical fascism), fascists who supported the Catholic Church in particular, and secular fascists who identified with Nazism and antisemitism.{{cite book |last=Griffin |first=Roger |title=The Nature of Fascism |date=11 October 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-14588-9 |page=132 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nature_of_Fascism/aQFUAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&pg=PA132&printsec=frontcover |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}} The Dutch Fascist Union (NFU) was founded in 1932 as an attempt to unite the Catholic fascists.{{cite book |last=Blamires |first=Cyprian |title=World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes] |date=18 September 2006 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-57607-941-6 |page=53 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_Fascism/sETPEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&pg=PA53&printsec=frontcover |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}} Many members had split from the larger General Dutch Fascist League. It was registered as a political party in the Netherlands on 26 February 1933.{{cite web |title=Dutch Fascist Union |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/repertoriumkleinepolitiekepartijen/PartijDetail?Id=118 |website=Repertoire of small political parties 1918–1967 |publisher=Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands |access-date=26 April 2025}}

The NFU contested the 1933 parliamentary election, receiving 1,771 votes (0.05%) and no seats. In The Hague the party won 0.19% of the popular vote, in Amsterdam 0.03%, in Haarlem 0.09%, in Utrecht 0.18%, and in Zwolle 0.28%. The NFU disappeared from written records soon thereafter.

During the interwar period, some fascist parties in the Netherlands{{snd}}such as the National Socialist Dutch Workers Party{{snd}}were criticised by other fascist parties for their perceived moderateness and focus on corporatism. The criticised groups were labelled "right-wing fascists" as opposed to "far-right fascists" who closely followed Italian fascism or Nazism.{{cite book |last=Payne |first=Stanley G. |title=A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 |date=1 January 1996 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-14873-7 |page=302 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Fascism_1914_1945/x_MeR06xqXAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&pg=PA302&printsec=frontcover |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}} The NFU advocated its own loosely defined ideology called {{lang|nl|volks-fascisme}} ({{literally|people-fascism}}).

Leading figures of the party included Karel Eduard van Charante and Tony W. Hooykaas.

The NFU membership reportedly never exceeded 1,000 followers.{{cite book |last=Littlejohn |first=David |title=The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-occupied Europe, 1940–45 |date=1972 |publisher=Heinemann |isbn=978-0-434-42725-3 |page=85 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Patriotic_Traitors/78whAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&dq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}}

The NFU had an armed wing{{snd}}a militia known as the Fascist Storm Troopers whose members dressed in black uniforms. It also had a youth wing named the Fascist Youth Union.{{cite book |last=Littlejohn |first=David |title=Foreign Legions of the Third Reich |date=1979 |publisher=Ripol Classic |isbn=978-0-912138-22-0 |page=138 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Foreign_Legions_of_the_Third_Reich/zc7tAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Dutch+Fascist+Union%22&pg=PA138&printsec=frontcover |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}}

The NFU published De Aanval ({{literally|The Attack}}).

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