You wrote:
“...and we didn’t sell fuel to the Luftwaffe or trucks to Die Wehrmacht like the US did.”
You sold them STEEL. They made their rifles, tanks and bombs out of that steel. The German war effort would have floundered if not for Swedish collusion with the Nazis.
Come to think of it, isn’t Queen Silvia of Sweden (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath, December 23, 1943) the daughter of one of those scumbag Swedish steel dealers who did so much to help the Nazi war effort keep going? Yeah, actually she is.
Like I said:
“The Swedish economy was, for a number of years, almost fully integrated into the Nazis’ New Order; the country supplied Germany with high-grade iron ore (30 percent of that used by the German armaments industry), as well as ball bearings, foodstuffs, wood, and many other raw materials. In matters of finance, the Swedes cooperated with Germany by providing credit, which allowed the delivery of vast quantities of military equipment to the Wehrmacht. Moreover, after the war, the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, “examined gold it had received from the Nazis in payment for exports and returned about 13 tons that presumably had been stolen [from] Belgium and the Netherlands.”24”
http://www.adl.org/Braun/dim_14_1_neutrality_europe.asp
“Do your homework instead of bashing a small nation that happened to be squeezed in between Communism and Nazism during the last World war”
Do your own homework. You apparently didn’t know that your country made the steel that made the Nazi terror possible in Europe EVEN DURING THE WAR. Way to go!
You and the Nazis deserve Lutheranism. You’re suited for it:
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/luther-jews.htm
- I'm very aware my country was forced to do trade with evil in order to survive (one thing you should know is that Sweden traded iron ore for German weapons so that the Nordic countries could fight the Red Army. Right or wrong - who cares when dealing with a Commie tyrant like Joseph Stalin?)
One relative of mine managed the vending of such steel, another one got shot by the Red Army but survived, back in (the Swedish speaking part of) Finland after wards he became a police officer. He never lost his faith in democracy and freedom under the reign of law and order.
Do my ancestors owe you some sort of apology?