Trots allt!
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Sweden (1939–1945)}}
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| chiefeditor = {{ubl|Ture Nerman|Kurt Singer}}
| foundation = Fall 1939
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| language = Swedish
| ceased publication = 1945
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| headquarters = Stockholm
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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!.{{cite web|author=Karl Liebknecht|date=15 January 1919|url=http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/liebknechtk/1919/01/trotz.htm|title=Trotz alledem!
|publisher=Marxists|access-date=4 February 2023}}
History and profile
Trots allt! was launched by a group of Swedish liberals and socialists, including Ture Nerman, in Fall 1939.{{cite book|author=Ture Nerman|title=Trots allt! Minne och redovisning|url=https://www.marxistarkiv.se/profiler/t_nerman/nerman-trots_allt.pdf|location=Stockholm|publisher=Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag|language=sv|year=1954}}{{cite encyclopedia
|author=Staffan Vahlquist|title=Ture Nerman, 1886–1969|url=https://litteraturbanken.se/%C3%B6vers%C3%A4ttarlexikon/artiklar/Ture_Nerman
|encyclopedia=Svenskt översättarlexikon|language=sv}} The editor of the paper was Ture Nerman. It came out weekly.{{cite magazine|title=The Press: Censorship Over Sweden|access-date=4 February 2023|magazine=Time|date=26 February 1940
|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,763256,00.html}} An Austrian Jew Kurt Singer served as its coeditor.{{cite book|author=Malcolm Atkin|title=Section D for Destruction: Forerunner of SOE: The Story of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service|publisher=Pen and Sword Books|year=2017|isbn=978-1-4738-9262-0|location=Barnsley|page=20| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22HNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20}} Polish lawyer Stanisław Adamek who had exiled to Sweden was one of the contributors.{{cite book
|author=Paweł Jaworski|title=Dreamers and Opportunist. Polish-Swedish Relations during the Second World War|year=2019|publisher=Elanders
|location=Stockholm|isbn=978-91-88663-36-8|pages=106,178,180,210|url=http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1291742&dswid=5151}}
The paper openly opposed the Nazi regime and the Swedish government's departure from the policy of neutrality{{cite book|author=John Gilmour|title=Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin. The Swedish experience in the Second World War|year=2011|pages=159,161,163
|url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631520|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|location=Edinburgh|doi=10.1515/9780748631520
|isbn=9780748631520|s2cid=247280755}} and contained the materials for the Soviet propaganda. Between April 1940 and January 1941 the distribution of Trots allt! was halted by the government. 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. Its issues dated 10 November 1942 and 3 March 1943 were also confiscated by the state authorities. The paper folded in 1945.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Bengt Nerman|title=Ture Nerman|encyclopedia=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|language=sv
|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/mobil/Artikel/8846}}
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