Word: malm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
Three hours after their takeoff, Swedish army planes picked them up over Malmö, escorted them in to nearby Bulltofta Airport. Said the girl: "We were fed up with the terror at home. It's good to breathe free air again...