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. The party was born out of a split in the

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in October 1933, as the Göteborg-based Party Staff (''partistaben'') of SNSP declared the party leader

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expelled from the party. Furugård was however able to isolate the Party Staff faction, and retained a majority of the party membership. The Party Staff regrouped as the Swedish National Socialist Unity Party (commonly nicknamed ''SNSP-staben''). The Party Staff group continued to publish '' Vår Kamp'' as its party organ.Lööw, Heléne. ''Hakkorset och Wasakärven: en studie av nationalsocialismen i Sverige 1924-1950''. Göteborg: H. Lööw, 1990. p. 20. In December 1933 the

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branch of the party broke away and formed a party of its own. In late 1933 the Swedish National Socialist Unity Party merged into the

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.''Svenska Dagbladets årsbok''. 1933. p. 59.

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