Its subtitle was Tidning för nationell politik och kultur (Swedish: Newspaper for national politics and culture).
[2] The group received financial support from Nazi Germany to launch the paper of which the first issue appeared in December 1941, and this support continued throughout World War II.
[2] Swedish teacher and historian Gustaf Jacobson also financed the establishment of the paper.
[4] Then a lawsuit was filed against the editor-in-chief of the paper, T. Telander, its foreign editor Rütger Essén and finance director Colonel H. Laurell, Berlin correspondent E. Gernandt and the chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm.
[1][5] Rütger Essén, a Swedish political scientist, was one of the editors-in-chief of Dagsposten.