The General Dutch Fascist League (in Dutch

Dutch language

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 Algemeene Nederlandsche Fascisten Bond) was a minor Dutch

Netherlands

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 fascist

Fascism

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 party founded in 1932. The party sought to create a volksfascisme, although they failed to fully define this aim and were considered closer to Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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 than Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 despite their rhetoric. The party failed to gain support in the 1932 elections and faded. The group then entered into a 'corporative concentration' with the followers of Alfred Haighton

Alfred Haighton

Coenraad Alfred Augustus Haighton was a millionaire businessman and the leader of the Netherlands' first fascist movement.-Fascism:...

 and the National Union

National Union (Netherlands)

The National Union was a Dutch fascist political party active during the 1920s and 1930s.The Union was set up in 1925 by Carel Gerretson and Robert Frédéric Groeninx van Zoelen initially as a study group with the intetion of arresting the factionalism that was gripping the Dutch far right at the...

, although leader Jan Baars

Jan Baars

Joannes Antonius Baars was a leading Dutch fascist during the 1930s.During the 1920s Baars emerged as part of the group associated with De Bezems, a fascist journal aimed at the poor. The magazine split in 1930 and Baars supported Alfred Haighton over H.A. Sinclair de Rochemont, joining Haighton's...

 did not get on with Carel Gerretson

Carel Gerretson

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, the leader of this new group and so quit the ANFB. As a consequence the ANFB floundered without its leader and disappeared.

The Black Front

Black Front (Netherlands)

The Black Front was a Dutch fascist movement active before the Second World War.The Front grew out of the southern section of the General Dutch Fascist League, with regional organiser Arnold Meijer quarrelling with leader Jan Baars in 1934 and leading his followers out...

, represented something of a revival of the ANFB, albeit on more Catholic

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lines.