The cult of the Nordic superman: between the pre-modern and the modern.

Politically, Nordic Nazism and Fascism never amounted to much. The Nazi parties in Scandinavia never played any important role in political life. Only elements without significant influence wanted parliamentary democracy to be replaced by totalitarianism. In Sweden there was many small Nazi-parties, but even the biggest one, Nationalsocialistiska arbetarpartiet (NSAP/SSS), led by Sven Olof Lindholm, never gained any political influence. Jointly it had under 1% of the vote and was never represented in parliament. At the last general election before the war (1939) the Nazis in Denmark gained only 1.8% of the vote. The percentage in Norway was the same (1936), while in Finland the fascist IKL party had about 4% of the votes in 1939. In Iceland the Nazis never climbed above the level of 0.2% of the vote.