NSB internationalism was also shaped by imperialism, unlike Quisling’s and Lindholm’s parties. The Dutch empire, and particularly colonial rule in the East Indies (Indonesia), enjoyed majority popular support, while the NSB itself was staffed by several former colonial administrators and military.

Fascist organisations enjoyed greater support in the Indies than in the metropole: the NSB became the largest political party in the colony by the mid-30s, while the colonial branch supplied a disproportionate amount of funding. NSB headquarters quickly acquired a dedicated department for the East Indies administration.

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Accordingly, at the end of the decade, contacts between the NS, SSS and DNSAP intensified: in June 1939, after the success of gaining three seats in the Danish parliament, the DNSAP, the main driving force in this Scandinavian cooperation, invited the Norwegians and Swedes to its party convention in Kolding.

Per Dahlberg, Lindholm’s right-hand man, gave a speech highlighting the common Nordic destiny. Vidkun Quisling spoke too, outlining the common battle of the Nordic peoples against the international forces of Marxism.

The convention was also the occasion for Clausen and Quisling to discuss the formation of an international Nordic fascist organisation, the Nordic Peoples’ Rising [Nordisk Folkereisning], which would coordinate the three parties’ activities and support each other. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, a so-called Nordic battle appeal [Nordisk Kampapell] was organised on 13 November 1939 in Copenhagen. The conference was a spectacle of international fascist solidarity in Scandinavia, underpinning a myth of a revived Nordic Great Power in Europe in the presence of two-thousand guests.