On This Day in History: April 13

The Woman with the Handbag

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You hate Illinois Nazis? Danuta Danielsson hated Swedish Nazis. And fucking Nazis are a problem in Sweden. Sweden is actually racist as fuck, with a terribly segregated labor market, the worst in Europe for people with a foreign background. Anyway, Danuta had enough of their shit, and gave some Nazi shit-licker a smack upside the head.

--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: April 13, 1985--

Some people love extremes. On April 13, 1985, there was a speech by the leader of the “Left Party-Communists” in the small city of Växjö, Sweden. Following the speech was a government-approved rally of fucking Nazis. Even before the rally began, lefties and fucking Nazis were beating the shit out of each other.

Danielsson was Danuta’s married name. She’d been born in Poland two years after World War II ended and moved to Sweden only a few years previous to this event. She was of Jewish descent, her mother an Auschwitz survivor. In the war, Poland suffered more per-capita casualties than any other country, most of them Jewish. She was rightfully pissed when she saw some Nazi oxygen thieves marching through her new homeland.

So, she whacked that feculent Nazi wank stain in the face with her purse, and I guess others thought fucking up some Nazi shit was a great idea and proceeded to attack them after the rally. They were pelted with eggs, and one was kicked unconscious. The Nazis fled, and being pieces of shit, appropriately hid their smelly asses in the bathrooms of the train station until police arrived and escorted them to safety.

Photojournalist Hans Runesson snapped a pic of Danielsson at exactly the right moment, just as her handbag was about to connect with some Nazi skull. The photograph was published in Sweden’s national newspaper the following day, as well as in The Times of London. Danielsson shunned attention, however, fearing prosecution for assault as well as reprisals from those Nazi cocktoboggans. Although some locals likely recognized her, she was not publicly identified as “The Woman with the Handbag” until 2014 because of a debate over erecting a statue depicting her righteous attack. Her son came forward saying she wouldn’t have liked that, and that she hated the photograph and how famous it was. The statue was erected anyway.

Danuta Danielsson suffered mental health issues, but her son said she knew exactly what she was doing when she hit that Nazi pisswhistle. Alas, the attention that photo garnered weighed on her, and she took her life in 1988. The piece of shit on the receiving end of the handbag was Seppo Seluska. Later that year he tortured and murdered a gay Jewish man and was sent to prison. Too bad Danuta’s handbag didn’t have bricks in it.

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