National Party (Poland)

National Party Stronnictwo Narodowe
Founded	7 October 1928; 95 years ago (7 October 1928)
Dissolved	1947; 77 years ago (1947)
Preceded by	Popular National Union
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Ideology	National conservatism Parliamentarism[1] Antisemitism[1] Germanophobia
Political position	Right-wing
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The National Party (Polish: Stronnictwo Narodowe, SN) was a Polish nationalist^[2] political party formed on 7 October 1928 after the transformation of the Popular National Union. It gathered together most of the political forces of Poland's National Democracy right-wing political camp. Shortly before World War II the party had 200,000 members, being the largest opposition party of that time.^[3]

In the 1930s the two main factions competed within the party, the "old generation" and "young generation", divided by age and political programmes. The old generation supported the parliamentary means of political competition, while the activist young generation advocated the extra-parliamentary means of political struggle. In 1935 the young activists took over the leadership of the party. In 1934 a significant part of the young faction split off from the SN, forming the National-Radical Camp. During World War II, many SN activists joined the National Armed Forces and National Military Organization resistance organizations.