[danamco]

73! And, I was there, at that time in Denmark when we were occupied by the Nazi Germans. I was also there when the Dane smuggled the majority of Danish Jews to Sweden. I was there when neighbors would pay the rent for these Danish Jews refugees until they came back from Sweden in 1945. I also remember to see the Red Cross convoys of buses transferring starved and sickly concentration camp prisoners rolling through Jutland via Fyn and Sjalland to Copenhagen and shipped across the Sound to Helsingborg and Malmo in 1944-45 where they were cared for compassionantly by the Swedish people. These transfers were arranged by the Swedish Count Bernadotta. Before you start trash the Swede, you should learn your history a little better, because Sweden's neutrality had an immense positive impact for the allies during the later part of WWII.
What I have taught you here is a very very small part of Sweden's roll, and in my view, a mostly positive roll. Please be aware not to be a Dan Blather before you throw out accusations!!!

[hinckley buzzard]

Thanks for the info, Pops, I know about the Danes and the rescue operations of the Jews. Brave souls. But my observation was about the Swedes. In accepting Jewish refugees they did the least that could be asked of an unoccupied country.

And, by the years 1944-1945 that you talk about, about a zillion Americans and other western allies including my father were busy fighting and dying to make life hell for the huns and to get them off your back.

After D-Day they had less time for chasing down Danish fishing boats, but no thanks to Sweden.

Look: History is that the government of Sweden cut a deal with Hitler to avoid the feared invasion. In return for not being attacked, and for supplies of German coal at ultra cheap prices, Sweden provided Hitler with desperately needed iron ore and other concessions, including transit and overflight rights. You talk about what an asset they were in the later years of the war. What about the first years, when the damage was being done?

They called themselves neutral but neutrality is not selling arms to both sides. That's called "war profiteering."

Furthermore, this wasn't the first time. Sweden did essentially the same thing in WW I.

Some governments acquitted themselves heroically in WW II. Denmark was one.

Sweden was not. My own grandparents, who came over on the boat from Goteborg, and now distant relatives who stayed there through the war, had no illusions about this. You need not either.

Cheers.

[hinckley buzzard]

Thanks for the info, Pops, I know about the Danes and the rescue operations of the Jews. Brave souls. But my observation was about the Swedes. In accepting Jewish refugees they did the least that could be asked of an unoccupied country.

And, by the years 1944-1945 that you talk about, about a zillion Americans and other western allies including my father were busy fighting and dying to make life hell for the huns and to get them off your back.

After D-Day they had less time for chasing down Danish fishing boats, but no thanks to Sweden.

Look: History is that the government of Sweden cut a deal with Hitler to avoid the feared invasion. In return for not being attacked, and for supplies of German coal at ultra cheap prices, Sweden provided Hitler with desperately needed iron ore and other concessions, including transit and overflight rights. You talk about what an asset they were in the later years of the war. What about the first years, when the damage was being done?

They called themselves neutral but neutrality is not selling arms to both sides. That's called "war profiteering."

Furthermore, this wasn't the first time. Sweden did essentially the same thing in WW I.

Some governments acquitted themselves heroically in WW II. Denmark was one.

Sweden was not. My own grandparents, who came over on the boat from Goteborg, and now distant relatives who stayed there through the war, had no illusions about this. You need not either.

Cheers.