Liechtenstein Homeland Service (german: Liechtensteiner Heimatdienst, LHD) was a political party in

Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (german: link=no, Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy ...

that advocated

corporate statism Corporate statism, state corporatism, or simply corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group, which forms the basis of society, is the state. The state requires all members of a parti ...

and the abolition of

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. Established in the autumn of 1933, the party's positions began to radicalize and move toward

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

ideas within a few months of existence. By December 1933, this radicalization caused some members (such as co-founder Eugen Schafhauser) to abandon the party. LHD merged with the Christian-Social People's Party (VP) in 1936 to form the Patriotic Union (VU).

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