National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden) 1938 they stopped using the swastika and replaced it with Vasakärven (the Vasa sheaf), an old Swedish emblem used by King Gustav II Adolf. By the end of the year the party had changed its name to Svensk Socialistisk Samling (Swedish Socialist Unity) and had largely dropped all but passing reference to the Nazis. Nonetheless the party declined dramatically during the Second World War and was formally dissolved in 1950. In 1943, the party's national congress in Uppsala caused the Easter Riots to break out. During the war its most notable member was later IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad. The party
Easter Riots Easter Riots The Easter Riots () is the name given to a period of unrest in Uppsala, Sweden, during the Easter of 1943. The National Socialist group Swedish Socialist Unity (SSS, , previously the National Socialist Workers' Party) held its national congress in Uppsala, amid the Second World War and only days after events like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The unrest climaxed on 26 April, when the SSS – who after initially belonging to a Strasserist wing of National Socialism began adopting a more indigenous form of fascism in 1938, and included Ingvar Kamprad among its early members – ended