Trots allt!

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Trots allt!
TypeWeekly newspaper
Editor-in-chief
FoundedFall 1939
Political alignment
LanguageSwedish
Ceased publication1945
Headquarters Stockholm
CountrySweden
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Nerman reading Trots allt!

Trots allt! (Swedish: Despite everything!) was a weekly socialist newspaper which existed between 1939 and 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden. The paper is known for its anti-Nazi stance and its founder and editor Ture Nerman. Due to its fierce criticism against Nazism the paper was subject to bans and censorship. Its title was a reference to the text by Karl Liebknecht entitled Trotz alledem!. [1]

History and profile

Trots allt! was launched by a group of Swedish liberals and socialists, including Ture Nerman, in Fall 1939. [2] [3] The editor of the paper was Ture Nerman. [4] It came out weekly. [5] An Austrian Jew Kurt Singer served as its coeditor. [6] Polish lawyer Stanisław Adamek who had exiled to Sweden was one of the contributors. [7]

The paper openly opposed the Nazi regime and the Swedish government's departure from the policy of neutrality [3] [4] and contained the materials for the Soviet propaganda. [7] Between April 1940 and January 1941 the distribution of Trots allt! was halted by the government. [4] In early 1942 the paper was also banned when it published a document, Black Book of the Government of Poland, by the Ministry of Information and Documentation of Poland. [7] Its issues dated 10 November 1942 and 3 March 1943 were also confiscated by the state authorities. [7] The paper folded in 1945. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Karl Liebknecht (15 January 1919). "Trotz alledem!". Marxists . Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Ture Nerman (1954). Trots allt! Minne och redovisning (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag.
  3. 1 2 Staffan Vahlquist. "Ture Nerman, 1886–1969". Svenskt översättarlexikon (in Swedish).
  4. 1 2 3 John Gilmour (2011). Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin. The Swedish experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 159, 161, 163. doi:10.1515/9780748631520. ISBN   9780748631520. S2CID   247280755.
  5. ↑ "The Press: Censorship Over Sweden". Time . 26 February 1940. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Malcolm Atkin (2017). Section D for Destruction: Forerunner of SOE: The Story of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. p. 20. ISBN   978-1-4738-9262-0.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Paweł Jaworski (2019). Dreamers and Opportunist. Polish-Swedish Relations during the Second World War. Stockholm: Elanders. pp. 106, 178, 180, 210. ISBN   978-91-88663-36-8.
  8. ↑ Bengt Nerman. "Ture Nerman". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish).
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