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  • 'Swedish shipments to Nazis may have been ransom for captured Swedes'

    06/30/2011 4:06:19 PM PDT · by WesternCulture · 6 replies
    www.thelocal.se ^ | 06/29/2011 | Susanne Berger/Ingela Magner
    Historical documents related to the capture of seven Swedes by the Gestapo in Poland in 1942 puts Sweden's subsequent ball bearing deliveries to Nazi Germany in a new light, argue historians Susanne Berger and Ingela Magner. A new review of document collections in the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) shows that the arrest of the seven "Warsaw Swedes" by the Gestapo in Poland in 1942 not only seriously jeopardized the men's lives but posed an existential threat to Swedish Match companies and other Swedish businesses throughout Eastern Europe. The men's release two years later was apparently secured not only through painstaking...