Accordingly, veteran groups spent most of their efforts restoring their social and political credibility.
Especially the first period after 1945 was characterized by the so-called treason trials against collaborators, most of them members of Nasjonal Samling and Norwegian SS volunteers. At the same time, the social exclusion and political and juridically persecution of members of Nasjonal Samling made it far more difficult to restart political far-right activities in Norway than, for example, Sweden. Working in close cooperation and having an ideological exchange with their “Nordic brothers” was probably an important aspect of their political agenda. Certainly, fascist groups had never been many or politically very successful in Norway, but this did not hinder them from making attempts to rebuild and restructure their organizations after 1945. However, this did not necessarily mean a total end to the dissemination of extreme right ideas or activities promoted by some organizations. National socialism in general was discredited in the overwhelming part of Norwegian society. The end of the Second World War did not only mark the breakdown of the collaboration regime in Norway. Both in ideology and practice, these groups were more open to international influences than the nationally oriented, more conservative groups. Organized RWE movements formed by post-Second World War generations, typically small neo-Nazi groups, started to re-emerge during the 1970s in Finland, Denmark, and Norway. To take just one example, NMR has counted the Swedish Nordiska Rikspartiet (Nordic Reich Party), which was founded in 1956 and active at times in all Nordic countries, among its most important predecessors. For understanding the current cross-border cooperation, the Cold War period can be seen as an, to some extent, essential research topic because many of the networks that still exist, had, to certain extent, their roots in that period.
In officially neutral Sweden, the effects of Hitler’s legacy differed from those countries that were either occupied or were brothers in arms with Germany. Varying historical experiences and events also affected the evolution of the right-wing extremist scenes.
Transnational networks reached Norway and Denmark, too, with individual activists sometimes playing an important role within these networks.
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