Word: gotland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, this time 15 miles north of Memel. The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes. At night people on Gotland Island, which lies in the Baltic west of Latvia, saw flashes from big naval guns...
...machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles, armored cars, tin hats. The Swedish Navy has three 7,000-ton vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona...
...physician-in-chief to the garrison at Gotland is a known pro-Nazi...
...list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland...