Ernst Herman van Rappard

After leading his own failed Nazi movement van Rappard enlisted in the Schutzstaffel and saw active service in the Second World War.

[2] His group, the NSNAP-Van Rappard advocated the incorporation of the Netherlands into the Third Reich, arguing that the Dutch had a strong ethnic kinship with the Germans.

[2] His group also vied with the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in terms of its virulent anti-Semitism, drawing most of its support from the Dutch-German border.

[1] He saw out the war as an officer in various units of the Waffen SS, being wounded in Estonia in August 1944 and receiving the Iron Cross Second Class.

[2] He was variously imprisoned in Leeuwarden and Breda before dying of a brain haemorrhage in the central prison hospital in Vught.