Erik Blücher

Nilsen grew up in Moss in a bourgeois home. His parents were politically inactive apart from voting for the conservatives. His father who is of ethnic German ancestry had been honoured for his participation in the resistance movement during World War II. Nilsen has described himself as a somewhat dull but well-adapted child. He was the primary candidate for the editorship of his high school newspaper.[1]

He became a member of the Norwegian Young Conservatives, but having written an article where he called for a political party to the right of the Conservative Party, he attended the 1973 foundation meeting of Anders Lange's Party, a tax protest party which would evolve to become the Progress Party. The party today is one of Norway's biggest political parties. Even there he was too radical. When Norsk Front was established Erik Blücher was its chairman from the outset. He attained to instant notoriety across the country on 30 May 1975, following his participation in a televised discussion program. He and his organization became intensely demonized from day one. Inquiries among ordinary people published by the mainstream media would readily call for the neo-nazis to be strung up from the nearest lamppost. The main causes championed by Blücher and his group were to fight off the communists, in particular the newly formed Marxist–Leninist Workers' Communist Party and non-European migrants, in particular those from Pakistan. In the 2006 interview Nilsen states that nobody in Norway after World War II has suffered as much because of their political convictions as he has.[1]