He made several trips to Germany, and met with Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler.

[1] In March 1931 Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were invited to speak at public meetings in Sweden, but the police chief in Stockholm refused to give permission.

In 1933 the second-in-command Sven Olov Lindholm formed the National Socialist Workers Party (NSAP), rapidly superseding Furugård as the most prominent Nazi leader in Sweden.

Furugård was later sentenced to two months in prison for defaming Criminal Police Superintendent Alvar Zetterquist.

The newspaper noted that Furugård admitted that there had been atrocities in Hitler's Germany, but refused to accept the existence of the gas chambers.