Editing White Aryan Resistance (Sweden)

{{Short description|Swedish neo-nazi group}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = White Aryan Resistance<br>Vitt Ariskt Motstånd
| logo                = 
| logo_size           = 225px
| successor           = [[Nordic Resistance Movement]]<br>[[National Socialist Front]]
| formation           = 1991
| founder             = [[Klas Lund]]
| dissolved           = 1993
| type                = [[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazi]] [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] movement
}}

'''White Aryan Resistance''' ({{langx|sv|Vitt Ariskt Motstånd}}, '''VAM''') was a militant [[neo-Nazi]] network active in [[Sweden]] between 1991 and 1993.

==Overview==
The name of the group was derived from the US [[white supremacist]] organisation [[White Aryan Resistance]] (WAR). According to [[Stieg Larsson]], a researcher of white supremacist organizations, the group was rather styled on the then already defunct US white supremacist group [[The Order (white supremacist group)|The Order]], led by [[Robert Jay Mathews]].<ref>[http://www.expo.se/2003/48_334.html Expo: Terrorism som folkrörelse - från Milano till Nacka]</ref> VAM was founded by [[Klas Lund]], other leading members were Torulf Magnusson and Peter Melander, editor of the group's magazine ''Storm''. The organisation's symbol was the "[[Wolfsangel]]" with a sword in the center. VAM has been implicated in many serious crimes in Sweden.<ref name="expo">{{cite web|url=https://expo.se/fakta/wiki/vitt-ariskt-motstand-vam|title=Vitt Ariskt Motstånd (VAM)|date=2 November 2018|work=Expo|language=Swedish}}</ref> According to a report prepared and jointly published in November 1999 by Sweden's four largest daily newspapers, ''[[Aftonbladet]]'', ''[[Expressen]]'', ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]'' and ''[[Svenska Dagbladet]]'', many former members of the organisation are members of present-day neo-Nazi organisations.<ref>[http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9911/30/nazi/nazi10.html Aftonbladet: Här är organisationerna som leder terrorn mot Sverige]</ref>

After VAM and a prison sentence, Klas Lund founded the self-declared Swedish Resistance Movement in 1997, which later became the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]]. Another VAM offshoot was the now-defunct [[National Socialist Front]] which was formed in 1994.<ref name="expo"/>

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[[Category:Neo-Nazi organizations in Sweden]]
[[Category:Neo-fascist terrorism]]
[[Category:Racism in Sweden]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:1993 disestablishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1991]]
[[Category:Organizations disestablished in 1993]]