ABSTRACT
This article examines antisemitic attitudes within Sweden's wartime Utllänningsbyrån (Foreigners' Bureau). The Bureau was important in 276determining Sweden's response to Jews seeking refuge, and a closer examination of attitudes prevailing within the Utlänningsbyrån therefore helps to address the significance of antisemitic attitudes in determining the nation's response to Nazi German policy. In common with all other countries, Sweden's response passed through several phases and, as analysed elsewhere, Sweden's general response to the plight of the Jews changed only in the autumn of 1942, when the ‘Final Solution’reached Norway. The Utlänningsbyrån's response during these years was influenced by a several different, even ambivalent factors, but there seems little doubt that, throughout the 1930s, antisemitic attitudes informed the decisions of some officials.
