Vera Oredsson

Vera Marta Birgitta Oredsson (née Schimanski, born 21 February 1928) is a German-born Nazi politician active in Sweden.

Biography

Youth

Vera Oredsson's father was a German engineer, soldier and a member of the Storm Detachment, and she was herself a member of the League of German Girls, the female wing of the Hitler Youth of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. During the Battle of Berlin, her family's home was hit by a firebomb. With her brother, the journalist Folke Schimanski, and their Swedish mother, she arrived in Sweden in April 1945 as a refugee via White Buses.

Life in Sweden

In Sweden, Oredsson married Sven-Olov Lindholm, the leader of the Nazi-party Swedish Socialist Union, in 1950. They divorced in 1962, and she then married Göran Assar Oredsson, the leader of the Nordic Realm Party.

Political activism

In 1960, Oredsson joined the Nordic Realm Party (then known as the National Socialist Combat League of Sweden) and became its party secretary in 1962. In 1975, she succeeded her husband as the party's leader, and is therefore Sweden's second female party leader, after Asta Gustafsson. Just a few years after, however, in 1978, her husband became the party's leader again.

Oredsson was charged in 1973 for breaking the law for political uniforms when she, her husband and Deputy Party leader Heinz Burgmeister wore armbands with swastikas. Oredsson claimed that the Swastika was not a political symbol, rather a spiritual one, and said that the armbands were only worn on private land. Varberg's District Court acquitted them.

After the murder of two homosexuals in Gothenburg by neo-Nazis in the mid-1980s, Oredsson defended the murder, saying "It was cleansing. We don't regard homosexuals as human beings."