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3 unusual facts about Ture Nerman


Censorship in Sweden

Ture Nerman was sentenced to three months in jail in the winter of 1939 for an anti-Hitler column in his Trots allt! (In spite of it all).

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Ture Nerman (1886–1969), Swedish socialist politician and activist

Ture Nerman

Nerman was welcomed to live with the Kamenev family at the Kremlin.


Zeth Höglund

In 1914, when World War I broke out, Zeth Höglund together with Ture Nerman represented the Swedish-Norwegian members of the Zimmerwald Conference, the international socialist anti-war movement which gathered in the small Swiss village of Zimmerwald.

Zimmerwald Left

The Left of the Zimmerwald Congress was made up of eight out of 38 people: Lenin, Zinoviev (Russia), Jānis K. Bērziņš (Latvia), Karl Radek (Poland), Julian Borchardt (Germany), Fritz Platten (Switzerland), Zeth Höglund and Ture Nerman (Sweden).


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