| Successor | Nordic Resistance Movement National Socialist Front |
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| Formation | 1991 |
| Founder | Klas Lund |
| Dissolved | 1993 |
| Type | Neo-Naziwhite supremacist movement |
White Aryan Resistance (Swedish:Vitt Ariskt Motstånd,VAM) was a militantneo-Nazi network active inSweden between 1991 and 1993.
The name of the group was derived from the USwhite supremacist organisationWhite Aryan Resistance (WAR). According toStieg Larsson, a researcher of white supremacist organizations, the group was rather styled on the then already defunct US white supremacist groupThe Order, led byRobert Jay Mathews.[1] VAM was founded byKlas Lund, other leading members were Torulf Magnusson and Peter Melander, editor of the group's magazineStorm. The organisation's symbol was the "Wolfsangel" with a sword in the center. VAM has been implicated in many serious crimes in Sweden.[2] According to a report prepared and jointly published in November 1999 by Sweden's four largest daily newspapers,Aftonbladet,Expressen,Dagens Nyheter andSvenska Dagbladet, many former members of the organisation are members of present-day neo-Nazi organisations.[3]
After VAM and a prison sentence, Klas Lund founded the self-declared Swedish Resistance Movement in 1997, which later became theNordic Resistance Movement. Another VAM offshoot was the now-defunctNational Socialist Front which was formed in 1994.[2]
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