What Noway Was
A Nasjonal Samling poster from 1943 affirming that the party, represented by its orange-yellow Nordic cross, would restore Norway to its past glory. The flag bearer is followed by a procession of the nation’s citizenry from every creed, reminding the viewer to do their part in carrying out the impending national revolution.
The Nasjonal Samling was a fascist party active in Norway. It’s ideology espoused the idea of a revolutionary rebirth of a mythical atemporal people, whose true values and a primordial purity had been suppressed in recent history, yet lay dormant within the people’s genome as an ancestral memory. Their party program called for its people to discover within themselves their heroic destiny as modern Norwegians, to bring about Norway’s rebirth from decadence. The clearest expression of this oscillation between an idealized past and future rebirth can be found in the nationalist cultural productions of the era, such as this poster.
Note the stahlhelm and German military uniforms being worn.
Top text reads: What Norway Was…
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A Nasjonal Samling poster from 1943 affirming that the party, represented by its orange-yellow Nordic cross, would restore Norway to its past glory. The flag bearer is followed by a procession of the nation’s citizenry from every creed, reminding the viewer to do their part in carrying out the impending national revolution.
The Nasjonal Samling was a fascist party active in Norway. It’s ideology espoused the idea of a revolutionary rebirth of a mythical atemporal people, whose true values and a primordial purity had been suppressed in recent history, yet lay dormant within the people’s genome as an ancestral memory. Their party program called for its people to discover within themselves their heroic destiny as modern Norwegians, to bring about Norway’s rebirth from decadence. The clearest expression of this oscillation between an idealized past and future rebirth can be found in the nationalist cultural productions of the era, such as this poster.
Note the stahlhelm and German military uniforms being worn.
Top text reads: What Norway Was…
