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Svedska je bila neutralna zemlja, mada je bilo saradnje i sa jednima i drugima.
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New image of Sweden during the war years
Swedish exports of iron ore and ball bearings to Germany prolonged the Second World War. On the other hand made no country more to assist and save Jews. It appears in a new edition of If ye your children ...
August 25, 2009 at 09:23, Updated: August 25, 2009 at 10:17
What was Sweden's role during the Holocaust? What's to be proud of, and be ashamed of?
So reads a few of the questions in the new version of the book, if ye your children ... The original has reached 1.3 million Swedes, but has now been supplemented with a 20-page chapter on Sweden and the Holocaust, and printed in 30 000 copies, "to last until Christmas," says Eskil Franck, director of the Living History, which publishes the work.
-Our intention has been to provide a contrasting picture to that which dominates, the one that shows that the Conservative government did what it could, and should not be blamed, says Paul A. Levine, who with Stéphane Bruchfeld is the author of If ye your children ...
Another aim has been to deconstruct some of the most common myths, as the Swedes did not know anything, or were late out what the Nazis did to Jews.
-From August 1942 the Swedish authorities to know what is happening, and from September of that year starts Swedish newspapers report on the death camps.
-We could have written a book that is only critical to the country's policies regarding the mass killings of Jews, because there's enough material for it. But our mission was to provide a nuanced and complex picture, sometimes contradictory, plus the change over time.
Sweden's action was at first very narrowly, and when the war broke out in 1939, only 3000 Jewish refugees allowed into the country, "which was less than tiny Luxembourg had received" the authors write.
At one point in the book told of a German request from 1941. It has invaded the Soviet Union, needs to troop reinforcements and therefore conveying Engelbrecht division from Norway to Finland, the Swedish territory, which the Swedish government will accept.
How did contemporary threats like, for Sweden? What would have happened if the Prime Minister had refused?
-Probably nothing. The Germans fully realized the value of trade in Sweden. In addition, several other countries have said no to the Nazis' demands, but Hitler did something.
In another place the authors note that Sweden's export of iron ore and ball bearings continued, long after it became clear that Germany would lose the war, and long after many others had ceased to trade with the Nazis.
-Sweden's decision to prioritize economic renewed without a doubt the war, but how long is of course uncertain.
There are harsh words, but they would be somewhat mitigated by the change that is still taking place, and among other things results in welcoming the Norwegian and Danish Jewish refugees, and let the Embassy in Budapest issued Swedish protective passes to the city's Jews, plus arrange for "the white buses "to free the prisoners from the camps. Though only a third of the 20 000 saved were Jews; action was primarily organized to bring back the Scandinavian citizens.
Another far less notable effort was made by Swedish employees at ASEA, LM Ericsson and Swedish Match factory, which acted as couriers for the Polish underground. They were revealed by the Germans in 1942, and several of those involved were sentenced to death, but the authors write, "Sweden's good relationship with Nazi Germany led them eventually were released."
The final review will be positive, and the authors' summary is this: More could have been done, but "during the war, aided and rescued Sweden is probably more Jews than any other country."
The old version was printed in seven languages, in addition to Swedish, to give the country's immigrants with a piece of important history. The new one will only be translated into English, for economic reasons, and there will be no foreign distribution.
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-The various foreign versions already have a chapter on their own country, the Latvian, German and French editions. Sweden is the last with a longer description of their behavior, strangely enough.
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