The group looked to the
Nazi Party for its inspiration, setting up its own Storm Trooper battalion in imitation of the
Sturmabteilung and its own Holland Youth like the
Hitler Youth, as well as copying the black
swastika in a white circle on a red background as its emblem.[2] Unlike its
far-right counterparts, who claimed to endorse Dutch
patriotism, the NSNAP sought full incorporation of the Netherlands into the
Third Reich, a policy which won it little support as the 998 votes which the party captured in the
1937 election demonstrated.[2] Unlike the NSB, the NSNAP focused on
antisemitism, and denounced the NSB as a Jewish-dominated, pseudo-National Socialist organisation.[3]
Van Rappard was unable to hold the party together and before long three separate group were claiming the NSNAP name, one under Major Cornelis Jacobus Aart Kruyt and the other under Albert van Waterland (who had dropped his real surname of de Joode as it meant 'the
Jew').[2] This factionalism in what was already a small party ensured that
Alfred Rosenberg, who had considered the possibility of supporting the group with German money, lost interest and so the three NSNAPs faded from significance.[2]
The NSNAP did not gain from the German invasion of 1940 as the German authorities chose
Anton Mussert of the rival NSB as their main beneficiary and Major Kruyt's version of the party merged into Mussert's movement in late 1940.[4] The NSNAP finally disappeared altogether on December 14, 1941 when
Arthur Seyss-Inquart banned all parties except the NSB. With van Rappard on active service with the
Waffen-SS most of the remaining NSNAP members accepted the decision and switched their support to Mussert.[4]
The group looked to the
Nazi Party for its inspiration, setting up its own Storm Trooper battalion in imitation of the
Sturmabteilung and its own Holland Youth like the
Hitler Youth, as well as copying the black
swastika in a white circle on a red background as its emblem.[2] Unlike its
far-right counterparts, who claimed to endorse Dutch
patriotism, the NSNAP sought full incorporation of the Netherlands into the
Third Reich, a policy which won it little support as the 998 votes which the party captured in the
1937 election demonstrated.[2] Unlike the NSB, the NSNAP focused on
antisemitism, and denounced the NSB as a Jewish-dominated, pseudo-National Socialist organisation.[3]
Van Rappard was unable to hold the party together and before long three separate group were claiming the NSNAP name, one under Major Cornelis Jacobus Aart Kruyt and the other under Albert van Waterland (who had dropped his real surname of de Joode as it meant 'the
Jew').[2] This factionalism in what was already a small party ensured that
Alfred Rosenberg, who had considered the possibility of supporting the group with German money, lost interest and so the three NSNAPs faded from significance.[2]
The NSNAP did not gain from the German invasion of 1940 as the German authorities chose
Anton Mussert of the rival NSB as their main beneficiary and Major Kruyt's version of the party merged into Mussert's movement in late 1940.[4] The NSNAP finally disappeared altogether on December 14, 1941 when
Arthur Seyss-Inquart banned all parties except the NSB. With van Rappard on active service with the
Waffen-SS most of the remaining NSNAP members accepted the decision and switched their support to Mussert.[4]