[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Sweden didn’t have much choice re joining WW2 on the Allied side. The Germans were ready to invade in force and Sweden didn’t have much of an Army, etc.

Sweden did play both sides just as Switzerland did but geographically, Sweden had a better geographical and military disadvantage re the Germans than did the Swiss.

I had friends who were either turned back at the Swiss border and denied asylum, or were accepted and “interned” as a way to keep them alive.

[hinckley buzzard]

Got news for you: a lot of countries “didn’t have much choice” in WWII but they strived to do the right thing even if in exile. Sweden sat fat dumb and happy and obstructed British troops, refusing them transit across from Norway to Finnland when they could have made a difference. Instead they safeguarded German shipping taking Swedish ore to the mainland.

They also were complicit in running the German war machine’s wheels, the ball bearings industry in Schweinfurt. We lost a hundred planes in one raid on these Swedish enterprises.

Sweden didn’t have much of an army? Neither did the Poles, but that didn’t stop them from sending horse cavalry against the German supply trains in 1939.