page_title: Dutch Peoples-Union
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dutch Peoples-Union / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Nederlandse Volks-Unie demonstreert in Arnhem, met de tekst "Doodstraf voor kinderverkrachters en moordende pedofielen!" English: Political party Dutch People's Union demonstrating in Arnhem, propagating "Death penalty for child rapists and murderous pedophiles"
context_page_description: The Dutch Peoples-Union is a Dutch Neo-Nazi political party. The party strives for a fusion of the Netherlands with Flanders and a Europe of the Fatherlands.
context_section_description: The party was founded as a political party in 1971 by Guus Looy, with as key purpose to rehabilitate convicted WW-II war criminals. In 1973 Roeland Raes, of the Belgian Vlaams Blok, became vice-president (reflecting the desire of both parties to unite the Netherlands and Flanders) and later that year Joop Glimmerveen took over the position of president. During the 1970s, the party became increasingly militant as younger neo-Nazis joined its ranks.
  When Glimmerveen revealed his sympathy for Adolf Hitler and Anton Mussert and the NVU became more and more a Nazi party, support for the party collapsed and it was forbidden. Due to a mistake in the law, the NVU managed to continue after it was forbidden. Some members formed the Centrumpartij (CP), which later split into the Centrum Demokraten (CD) and CP'86. In the mid-eighties, the NVU collapsed completely.
  In 1996, a few young neo-National Socialists asked Joop Glimmerveen, then 68 years of age, to start the NVU again and he did. In 1998, they tried to enter the city council elections in Den Haag and Arnhem, but did not succeed. At this moment, the NVU is the most active party on the extreme right in the Netherlands and gets support from the Aktiefront Nationale Socialisten (ANS), a small organization of activists who claim solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and other groups which they consider to be anti-imperialist. The number of members of the NVU is unknown.
caption: NVU march in 2010
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