The investigator Tony Gustafsson has written the nearly 900-page report where he examined the parts of the SD's heritage that "the party is not particularly proud of". Here are some of the conclusions:
SD and BSS
It is documented that SD was founded in 1989 from Bevara Sverige Svenskt (BSS), a racist, right-wing extremist and national revolutionary campaign organization. Many of the party leaders had their background there. Of the approximately 30 people they managed to map, a third had connections to neo-fascist or national fascist movements.
A pronounced ethnonationalism
Until the mid-1990s, SD's ideology was distinctly ethnonationalist. Opponents were often described as "enemies" and consisted of three groups: Internationalists (often stood for Jews), traitors (political opponents) and immigrants ("who through their mere existence threatened the cultural and ethnic homogeneity", according to Gustafsson).
Contacts with Nazi organizations
In 1993, SD's members are urged to stop talking about race, at the same time the party has contacts and connections to right-wing extremist organizations in various ways. During the 1990s, the party publishes anti-Semitic material and many members are also members of organizations such as Vitt ariskt motstånd and Nordiska rikspartiet. Vitt ariskt motstånd also appears as "unofficial guards" at a couple of the party's larger demonstrations.
Militant SDU – political soldiers
SDU was founded in 1992. The association has militant features and a confrontational street activism. They describe themselves as "political soldiers" and openly listen to white power music with anti-Semitic lyrics, dream of racial war, despise homosexuality and pay tribute to the Ku Klux Klan and the Holocaust.
1995 – the beginning of a change process
When Mikael Jansson takes over as party leader after Anders Klarström in 1995, a change work begins. They prohibit uniforms and Nazi-related symbols during demonstrations. Internally, they discuss how to "clean out" the "Nazi packet". They "clean house" in the youth associations, which are reorganized and come under SD. In 2000, Mikael Jansson openly expresses his disgust for Nazism. In the mid-1990s, Jimmie Åkesson becomes a member of the party and, according to Tony Gustafsson, the current party leadership continues the change work.
Exclusions
Between 1992 and 2010, 130 people are excluded. From 1995, exclusions are also made on ideological grounds. People who give the Nazi salute, express themselves overtly racist or anti-Semitic are excluded. Members who have dealings with anti-democratic groups are also excluded.
