2009-06-24

Anton Nilsson, the Amalthea man

There was a strike in Malmö 1908, and the company took British strikebreakers there on the ship Amalthea. Three youngsocialists, Anton Nilsson,Algot Rosberg and Alfred Stern decided to put a bomb on the ship to scare them. One was killed, 23 injured, Anton Nilsson was sentenced to death, but got prison instead. He was free during the First World War and went to Soviet and became a pilot in their Airforce. He came back to Sweden and lived in Tyresö outside Stockholm. My Grandmother was a friend to his wife, and she and my mother met them there in 1940. When he was almost 100 years old he was talking at Social Democratic electionmeetings

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