Rum-running Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Rum-running in Northern Europe in the 1920s and 1930s === Prohibitive alcohol laws in Finland (total ban of alcohol from 1919 to 1931), Norway (liquor above 20 per cent abv 1917β1927) and the Swedish [[Bratt System]] which heavily restricted the sale of alcohol made these three countries attractive for alcohol smuggling from abroad. The main product used for smuggling were rectified spirits produced in Central Europe (Germany, Poland, Netherlands etc.). Alcohol was legally exported on large ships as tax-free produce via ports like Hamburg, Tallinn, Kiel and particularly the [[Free City of Danzig]]. Similar to the Rum Row near the U.S. coast, these ships usually did not leave [[international waters]] and the alcohol was clandestinely loaded onto smaller boats that illegally brought it into the destination countries. Despite various efforts led by Finland to fight contraband (Helsinki Convention for the Suppression of the Contraband Traffic in Alcoholic Liquors of 1925), the smugglers managed to bypass anti-smuggling laws, e.g., through the use of [[flags of convenience]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mitter |first=Adrian |date=2019 |title=Rum Runners of the Baltic β The Rise of Transnational Liquor Smuggling Networks in Interwar Europe |url=https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/index.php/zfo/article/view/10687/10691 |format=PDF |journal=Zeitschrift fΓΌr Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=527β550 |access-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page