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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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.

41 posted on 06/16/2019 6:40:17 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

The ballbearings Germany got from outside their country came from Switzerland (as did watch movement parts,etc - but the US also got them to counter what the Germans had).
Sweden provided some materials but I just don’t have the list in front of me.


43 posted on 06/16/2019 10:29:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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