Utrikesdepartementet

Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Identifier: Utrikesdepartementet
Language of Description: English
Dates: 1791
Level of Description: Fonds
Source: EHRI

Web Source

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/JYMNeBUQrH6d0002H087k3

Biographical History

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs was established in 1791, when Gustav III established the Royal Cabinet for Foreign Correspondence.

The body was formally named the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1840.

Finding Aids

There is an index of the archive in the National Archive Database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/JYMNeBUQrH6d0002H087k3

The National Archives has also published an extensive archival guide to the Ministry's archive, in Swedish:

Romefors, Örjan, and Emre Olgun. Utrikesförvaltningens källor 1520--2000. Skrifter utgivna av Riksarkivet 39. Stockholm: Riksarkivet, 2017.

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HP 39 Stormaktskriget 1939–1945
- HP 39 The war of the Great Powers (World War II), 1939–1945
- Riksarkivet
- HP 39 Stormaktskriget 1939–1945
- English
- 1939-1952
- 202 archival volumes
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection consists of 202 archival volumes of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs records concerning World War II, like the development of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, restricted waters and other areas, mines and shipping obstacles in the Baltic Sea and other waters adjacent to Sweden, ceasefire and peace negotiations, foreign trade during the war, issues concerning Swedish volunteers, and much more. Among these records are also documents relating to the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. For instance, the series called D Humanitär hjälpverksamhet (Human...
Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.
- The Jewish Question. General. Refugee aid.
- Riksarkivet
- Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.
- English
- 1933-1952
- 8 folders of textual records.
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection was created by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and consists of documents (originals, and contemporary copies and transcripts) connected to the situation for the Jews in Europe during the Nazi era and the immediate post-war years. It includes reports from Swedish diplomats in countries about the policies on Jewish refugees of different countries, and also reports from countries under Nazi rule about the situation for the Jewish population, as well as newspaper clippings on the same subjects. Some of the Swedish diplomatic correspondence includes antisemitic statements ...

Utrikesdepartementet

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HP 39 Stormaktskriget 1939–1945

Judefrågan. Allmänt. Hjälp åt flyktingar.